On the day two tribal women were stripped, paraded and allegedly gang-raped by a mob in Manipur, two other young women from the state's Kangpokpi district were brutally raped and murdered. The victims, 21 and 24, were working at a car wash in the Konung Mamang area of the Imphal East district, around 40 kilometres away from the site of the other incident, when they were targeted by a mob on May 4, at the peak of ethnic violence in the state. The two women at the car wash were reportedly assaulted by a large group of men, accompanied by some women; Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha wrote to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar opposing even the introduction in the Parliament of the controversial Ordinance passed by the Centre which snatched control of bureaucracy from the Delhi government. Calling it "blatantly unconstitutional", Mr Chadha listed three reasons why he believes the introduction of the ordinance is "impermissible" and other top stories.
