Some recent incidents on NE people

Collections of unwanted incidents among the North East people in Delhi and NCR collected from Facebook group North East Support Centre & Helpline...

NE girls molested by landlord

Two chakma girls from Arunachal Pradesh was molested in Gurgaon on 13/02/2014 night by the landlord and his friends. The girls ran away and in the morning the landlord came again and tried forcing one of the girl's friends to sign a paper. Tigra Village, Gurgaon where the girls stay falls under Sadar Police Stations. Heard that FIR already lodged. (Source: Seven Sister's Project).

NE Girl Robbed in Delhi

A staff nurse from Manipur, who works in GB Pant hospital, was robbed by unknown man near the hospital last night. The incident occurred while she was returning home at around 9.30pm on 12/02/2014.

The man forcibly snatched away her mobile phone and her bag [which contained important documents and money/Rs 7000]. 

"This incident happened in a busy place. While our sister was confronting the man face-to-face, there were many people around her who simply stared at her. No one helps her during the scuffle took place. Atlast the man decamped with her things,” sources told NE Helpline few minutes ago. FIR lodged.Top of Form

'Racial' heat on Doordarshan

The Telegraph | Sumi Sukanya | New Delhi, Feb. 11:

Acting on a complaint filed by a group of Delhi University teachers and students hailing from the Northeast — who accused Doordarshan of being discourteous towards them and showing “racial bias” after inviting them for a talk show on DD News — Prasar Bharati has formed a fact-finding committee to look into the allegations.

“We were told that the teachers would be put on the panel but on reaching, the studio we were told that they just wanted us to be part of the audience as they had already selected six panellists. When we protested, they started insulting us. The DD staff, particularly anchor Sharma and producer of the show Subhash Jain, were discourteous and they misbehaved with us.

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Delhi Police to create FB, Twitter pages for NE people

Faced with criticism over its perceived lack of sensitivity and outreach to the northeast community in the capital, Delhi Police is set to launch a Facebook page and a Twitter account for people from the northeast where they can post complaints and suggestions.

In another move, a 24-hour Delhi Police helpline will be publicised widely by their social media websites.

The decision was taken by Delhi Police in the wake of an alleged “racist” attack on Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania that led to his death and a furore among people from the northeast region.

Delhi Police already has a committee, formed in 2012 and headed by a joint commissioner of police, to tackle problems faced by students and other people from the northeastern states living in Delhi. It is currently being headed by Joint Commissioner Robin Hibu, who hails from the region.

“A Facebook and Twitter account of Delhi Police will be launched soon where students from the northeastern region can put forth their grievances and suggestions,” a police officer told IANS.

He said the accounts will be monitored regularly by a police team with good knowledge of social media and computer handling. “Delhi Police will take note of the posts and act upon them.”

“We will also post the action taken by Delhi Police on the complaints and suggestions,” he added.

Delhi Police will also publicise its 24-hour helpline number - 1091 - on the website of the ministry of development of north east region (DoNER) as well as its Facebook and Twitter pages.

It will also encourage northeast students to pen down their thoughts and experiences on wattpad - an online community themed around writing and story-telling on which users can post articles, stories, and poems about anything.

The DoNER ministry has already launched a support centre for students from the northeast following the death of Tania.

The decision was arrived at after a joint meeting between Delhi Police and officials of DoNER Feb 5, said another police official.

The support centre has been opened at the NorthEast Council Guest House in Chanakyapuri in central Delhi. Professional counsellors will be hired on contractual basis to deal with problems and issues raised by northeast students at the support centre.

In another step at outreach, Delhi Police is planning to conduct half-day seminars once a month that will see professional counsellors and northeast people discuss issues and problems faced by them. In this move, the DoNER ministry would also chip in.

Delhi Police holds meetings once in two months with students and people from the northeast in the seven police districts of the capital. The minutes of the meetings are forwarded to Hibu and the Delhi Police commissioner, said an official.

Source: Nagalandpost

24-year-old boy from Manipur stabbed in Delhi's Saket

New Delhi: A day after two Manipuri boys landed up in hospital after being attacked, another youngster from the Northeastern state has been attacked in the national capital on Tuesday morning.

In an apparent robbery attempt, the victim, a 24-year-old man, was stabbed in the stomach by unknown men. The incident took place in Delhi's Saket at around 4 am when he was returning from work.

He was rushed to a Saket hospital where he is condition is reported to be critical.

Prima facie it appears to be a case of robbery as his mobile phone was snatched by the assailants.

Delhi Police Commissioner has reached the spot and investigation is on.

This comes a day after two Manipuri boys in their early 20s were attacked in Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar area. As per the latest reports, one of the victim is still in hospital undergoing treatment.

Source:ibnlive

Clips from FB-zogam.com:

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Days after Nido Tania's death, two more boys from North East attacked

New Delhi:  Two boys from the North East were allegedly beaten with sticks last night at a south Delhi neighbourhood, less than two weeks after the death of Nido Tania in what his friends described as a racist attack. The boys, who belong to Manipur, were allegedly attacked at Madangir in south Delhi by a biker.

Courtesy: NDTV.com

One of them, Ginkhansuan Naulak, is still being treated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). 

The incident surfaces at a time several groups from the North East are protesting the death of 20-year-old Nido Tania, a student of Arunachal Pradesh, after being beaten with iron rods and sticks at south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar market on January 29. 

Nido was found dead in his bed hours after he was allegedly beaten by men who allegedly ridiculed him for his blonde hair and shouted racist slurs at him. An autopsy report has confirmed that he died of injuries to his head and face as a result of that attack. Nido's parents had maintained that he died due to the beating, but the police said they could act only after a medical report.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joined protesters demanding justice for him at candlelight vigils last week.

Politicians across parties have vowed to work with activists and students from the North East to address their recurring concerns of being racially targeted in Delhi and other cities.

Source: ndtv.com

Letter to Mother India

(The author is Kimi Colney, a blogger and a patriot at heart who doesn’t mind 

giving a piece of her mind to anyone who looks down upon or talks ill of the people 

from Northeast India – Editor)

Dear Mother India,

From the day I was born, you were the first sight I saw. My first steps were in your soil. I spent a month memorizing your national anthem. Recited it with pride among my peers in second grade.

Ever year, I celebrated the Republic Day and Independence Day. Watched all of Gandhi’s movies and a few of Bhagat Singh’s.  Learnt of our rich history of the Mughal Empire and the Maurya dynasty.

I visited temples and villages, beaming with pride for the nation I belong to. I walked the marble stones of the Taj Mahal and wondered about the great minds of our ancestors.

On meeting people from another country, I’d tell them with pride, there are 28 states in my country. We may not be economically strong, but we are strong, culturally. We have so many kinds of people, all so beautiful, so many distinct dances and festivals, we are a close-knit family.

I wrote articles about you hoping people would read and get a taste of Incredible India.

But even though I love you still, today I must say goodbye to you. Though my passport is Indian, though my birth certificate claims I’m Indian, and though I’ve lived in these soils all my life, I am not Indian.

To be considered part of a family, you must be accepted by the members of the family. And today, clearer than ever, we have been shown that we are not. Though the country talks of progress, broad minds and acceptance, everyone from street vendors to employees in the biggest MNC’s, a small part of your heart will always discriminate.

The saddest part is what you discriminate upon – our looks. How many times have we read and recited the words, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Well, DEAR INDIA, that’s what you do everyday.

I wear a sari to work with a patriotic feeling, tugging the ends with difficulty, and all along the way, I hear chants of ‘Chinese model, Chinese model’. I hang out with my friends in a Chinese restaurant, I’ve known them for months, explained to them that I am FROM the country, but half of the conversation goes like, “this is Kimi’s restaurant, order anything  you want….” At outings I get introduced as the Chinese friend. In trains I am referred to as “that Nepali”.

In every city, every town, this is what we go through everyday. We have looked by, hoping and thinking, they will understand and learn of us someday. But such a thing as death, for someone of such a young an age as 20 for reasons relating to his hairstyle, is not something that can be looked by.

Well, I have just one question for you India, are you ashamed of us? Do your rather wish we were foreigners of another country then one of your own land. Even after knowing we are your fellow citizens, why does your taunting never stop?

And what is so wrong in our face? Our eyes are a little small, we are a little fairer, we like experimenting with our hairstyles, does that make us any less a part of India? Or, would you like us all to go through plastic surgeries making our eyes bigger, changing our features, and having oil-slick hairstyles to be deemed citizens of the country?

Are you ashamed that we are of the “scheduled tribe” section of the country? Because in a land where caste says everything, it wouldn’t be surprising. But, just so you know, though we may not have many railroads, looming malls or corporate giants, though a large part of our population may still depend on farming, each day we wake up as Indians. WE toil through India’s soils, we watch Indian channels, we eat and drink India’s food.

Each day we read newspapers of India, checking up on politics, wondering who will be a good leader for what we have for so many years called our country. But now you make us wonder, is it really?

Goodbye India,

A Proud Northeast-ern

Source: mizonews.net

Delhi Police to interact with North East students

Date: 31st August 2013

Venue: Arunachal House, Bir Tikendrjit Marg, Chanakyapuri (Behind Yashwant Place Market)

Time: 11.00 AM onwards

Chief Guest: Shri Takam Sanjoy, M.P. Lok Sabha & Secretary of North East MP Forum

Delhi Police is planning to hold a Review Meeting on 31-08-2013 with all the Delhi Police Representatives of North Eastern States, Student Leaders, NGOs, and Employee Associations. Therefore, you are requested to inform all your representatives from the North Eastern States, Student Leaders, NGOs, Employee Associations so that they can give fruitful suggestions for the safety and security of the N.E. students and employees in Delhi. Lunch will be served at 1.00 PM.

Shir Robin Hibu IPS, Joint CP (Training) & Chief Coordinator for N.E. Students & Employees in Delhi, told NE Helpline this evening: "Please inform our brothers and sisters who are staying in Gurgaon, Nodia, Ghaziabad and others to attend the meeting. We also concern for their safety and security".

Bruce K. Thangkhal

Media Incharge

NORTH EAST SUPPORT CENTRE & HELPLINE, DELHI

8860956209 | 9999397620 | 9716775257

DCP South wants to meet NE Students

MEETING CIRCULAR : DCP South wants to meet NE Students

::: Yesterday there was a Meeting, Yesterday there was a Problem :::

NEW DELHI, AUG 01, 2013: A meeting with SHO Vasant Vihar Police Station was held yesterday evening, 5pm-7pm. Few representatives from the NE community attended. The problem never ends, the very night itself proved it. 

A NE girl, who stays with her brother and sister-in-law (with also a little kid) in Munirka, was forcibly thrown out of her room by the landlord Dariyao Singh Tokas and his two sons Prashant and Rohit at around 9pm. Many of her stuffs were damaged by the landlord and his sons.

An FIR u/s 448/427/34 IPC was registered in Vasant Vihar PS the same night with the assistance of Mr Huten Alexander, general secretary, Naga Students' Union Delhi (NSUD) and Mr Bruce K. Thangkhal, journalist & media incharge, NE Helpline Delhi.

Mr Anil Sharma, SHO, Vasant Vihar PS told NE HELPLINE this morning that the culprits will be booked and will be punished according to the law.

Again, there will be another important meeting with DCP South on 03rd August, 2013 (Saturday), 4pm at DCP Office, Hauz Khas. Delhi Police has initiated various steps for the safety of the Northeast people.

It will be an opportunity to address the issues and problems face by the NE people. All NE students/community/church leaders are kindly invited to attend the meeting. Your kind presence will speak volume to the Delhi Police.

In Public Interest,
North East Helpline Delhi

APPEAL- belongings of NE boy stolen in Delhi

Appeal for help in tracing lost documents and other belongings of a Northeast boy

New Delhi, 15 May, 2015 [NE HELPLINE] --- According to information reported to North East Helpline, Mr. Mhachan Shitiri son of Lawrence Shitiri from Rilan colony Dimapur, Nagaland has lost his important documents and other belongings on 14 May 2013 at Dhaula Kuan Bus terminal. Presently, he is staying in Humayunpur, 80/1, House no. 46, Saftarjung enclave, New Delhi. "My original certificates of class 10, BA, original Indian passport, laptop etc. were stolen from Dhaula Kuan Bus terminal at around 6:30am to 7am on 14 May 2013," Mr. Mhachan Shitiri told to NE Helpline. "I was on the bus bearing number RJ-14 B 4701 coming from Jaipur and my last station was Dhaula Kuan (South Delhi)," Mr. Mhachan added.

NE Helpline appeals to general public and concerned authorities to help trace the lost belongings of Mr. Mhachan Shitiri. Anybody who comes across these lost belongings may kindly contact the executive members of Naga Students' Union Delhi or the following numbers – 09899436328/08447688326/ 09560313020.

Three Northeast Boys beaten in Delhi

New Delhi, May 7, 2013 [NEH] --- In yet another shocking incident of discrimination against the Northeast people, three Northeast boys has been allegedly beaten up by the landlord and his son on Monday evening.  The father, Adarsh Kumar and his son, Ashish Tokas have been arrested after they allegedly assaulted three Northeast boys with wooden sticks accompanying a group of local people, here in Munirka yesterday. This is the sixth incident reported to NE Helpline this year. 

 According to the three victims, they were thrashed and beaten while they were standing inside the building, after one of them spitted on the ground. The incident occurred at around 3.30 pm yesterday, when one of the victims said that he inhaled a mosquito in his mouth and spitted out immediately on the ground.  When the landlord Adarsh Kumar saw this, he began thrashing them with the help of the local people numbering around 7-10 men with wooden sticks and iron rods.

 Mr Adarsh Kumar owned a flat next to the building where the three victims stayed. "Even our own landlord threatened us with dire consequences if we reported to police," said Roney, one of the victims.

 The three victims Roney (25), Guite (23) and Samson (25) sustained injuries during the physical assault by the locals. The victims were brought to Sardarjung hospital for medical test after the incident with minor injuries. However, Guite said Doctor told him that his eardrum busted and he needs to go for minor operation after some days.

 A case has been registered in Vasant Vihar Police Station under sections 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (Punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC (1860).

 The FIR has been successfully lodged only by midnight, after more than 10 hour's pursuance from a bunch of Northeast youngsters, viz. Mr Bruce K. Thangkhal, Media Incharge of NE Helpline, Mr Satminlun Khongsai, General Secretary of Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO) Delhi, Mr Huten Alexandar, General Secretary of Naga Students' Union (NSU) Delhi, Mr David Sukte, Vice President of Zomi Student's Federation (ZSF) Delhi Cell, Mr Thanglenpao, Asst Information Secretary/KSOD, and Mr Timothy Chongthu, Finance Secretary/KSOD. The FIR was lodged at around 12 O'clock last night, when Mr Anil Sharma, Station House Officer, Vasant Vihar Police Station arrived. 

"On hearing incident, I immediately rushed to the spot and call up 100 (PCR Van). The police told us, along with the victims, to come up to the main road where the police awaited. They didn't even come to the spot, where the victims were laying in a pool of blood," said Mr Timothy Chongthu.

 Roney, who works in a call centre, sustained injuries on his head, and his friend Guite, who is doing some IT course, injured on his left ear, which he says, ne need to go for minor operation soon, as told to NE Helpline.  The third victim, Samson, who tried to calm down the angry locales, was injured in his chest and right arm. However, the Safdarjung hospital in its medical report did neither mention grievous nor minor, nor unhurt. Police are waiting for the detail medical report and accordingly sections will be added, police said.

 Ms Stacy, a cousin of Roney, said, "We felt insecure and didn't stay last night at our room. We stayed in our friend's room. We have to vacate our rooms, otherwise, we may be backlash by the locales if they saw us".

 This is not the first incident happened there are so many which goes unreported. In last month April 28, one Northeast boy was allegedly beaten up by the locals in a similar case. When the Northeast boy was passing through a narrow passage in the street, some locals standing beside the road blocked his way with one motorcycle, when he requested them to make ways, he was simply thrashed then and there, he informed NE Helpline yesterday.

The Northeast Student leaders sought the Delhi Police to immediately arrest and punish the persons who accompanied the father-son duo in beating the three Northeast boys on Monday evening. Until and unless the accomplices were caught, they will still continue the same in future, the Northeast Student leaders feared. However, Vasant Vihar Police Station SHO Anil Sharma assured all the possible help to the Northeast people.

The Plight of a BPO Employee from North East India Goes Unheard

He was critically injured and has been paralyzed after he met accident last September. His employer didn't pay his salary nor listen to his distress. He is completely paralyzed. Family members narrated the whole story to the NE Helpline. New Delhi, April 17, 2013 [NORTH EAST HELPLINE] --- The plight of North East people continues in Delhi as many unfortunate incidents and stories go unreported. Many North East employees were debarred from getting their monthly salaries including one recent incident occurred in Saket, south Delhi. It was only over two weeks ago, when the North East Helpline intervened a desperate NE girl got her salary. Yet the other NE girl, who was allegedly beaten by her Thai manager (who is a business partner of Mr. Deepak Mittal, owner of the Gold Leaf Spa) last month, didn't get justice as action was not taken up by the Delhi Police so far. The Thai national got scot-free and she had silently escaped to Thailand soon after that incident. The unsavoury tales of the North East continues still. Like many, Mr.  DNG Kovalou, after his graduation started his career as a BPO executive at Gurgaon in 2004. He was doing quite well and looks promising in building a bright future. However, his dream was cut short on the fateful morning of September 15, 2012 while returning home after a night shift in Office Cab 'Tavera Car' (HR-55-MT-9998) with his colleagues, when a speeding Toyota Innova Car (DL-8CX-1110) hit them at Sanjay T-Point, Mahipalpur in south Delhi at around 4.30 am. The 31-year-old Kovalou was injured critically on his head and legs while his four colleagues also sustained injuries.  All of them were brought to AIIMS Trauma Centre, New Delhi where they got treatment. However, Kovalou was admitted in this hospital till December 2, 2012. Family members of the hapless victim narrated the whole story of this unfortunate incident to the North East Helpline general secretary Dr. Alana Golmei yesterday. "Kovalou's injuries have caused 100% permanent disablement and since then he has been lying on bed in a vegetative state. He is now merely surviving on Jejunostomy Feeding, Tracheotomy Breathing Pipe, Caspofungin and Imipenem injections with follow-up in confined vegetative state," a relative of Kovalou told NE Helpline. As the youngest son and beloved child in the family, his parents had sent him to Delhi for higher education by investing huge sum of money with a great expectation that one day he would look after his aged-mother and also support his five sisters and one brother. Till date more than 15 lakhs of Rupees have been spent on Kovalou's treatment and he requires at least two dedicated attendants round the clock.  Over seven months now, family has exhausted all their money on his treatment. The family didn't have alternative source of income and they are distressed. Kovalou's employer neither has hospitalization nor accident insurance policies which is a bare welfare facility extended by most employers today. When Kovalou's family approached his employer M/s Onkar Info Tech, Gurgaon to extend help, they did not respond while two of Kovalou's friends, Ramesh Joshi and Ashok Kumar, who were also injured during the accident, had already got their medical reimbursement and pending salaries," said a relative of Kovalou. When Kovalou's sister gave a written request to release the salary for the month of September 2012 and other dues, the company redirected the letter stating that "he had left the company". The truth is when Kovalou met the accident while returning from the night-shift he had neither left nor resigned from his job. With the daily expenses amounting to around Rs 25000 (twenty five thousand), the distressed family hired a lawyer to claim for compensation and fought the case in the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal.  Another shocking behaviour of the employer is that others who were injured along with Kovalou were advised to approach the lawyer hired by Kovalou's family claiming the lawyer was hired by the employer. The family is praying for miracle and awaiting justice from the Hon'ble Court. North East Helpline appeals to the Labour Minister of Haryana, Government of Haryana to intervene in releasing the salary and dues of Mr DNG Kovalou till date since he met the accident while he was employed by M/s Onkar Info Tech, Gurgaon. The Helpline also appeals to Delhi Police to book the driver and owner of the car which had caused the accident and rendered the life of a North East boy, Kovalou into a paralyzed condition and making the family in a painful situation.