KWOHR reports a Kuki woman was brutally abused by her husband and a Meira Paibis, tied up and left without sustenance for days. A Meitei group has dismissed it as a domestic issue and called the husband a “drunkard.”
April 28, 2025:
A 21-year-old Kuki woman, Ngeneihoi, is currently battling for her life at the District Hospital in Churachandpur after allegedly enduring brutal physical and psychological torture at the hands of her Meitei husband, Inaocha Khaidem, and members of the Meira Paibis, a prominent Meitei women’s group.
According to the Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights (KWOHR), Ngeneihoi, a native of Tanglel in Bishnupur District and resident of New Checkon, Imphal, was tied to a bed with her hands and legs bound, brutally beaten, and left without food or water for three days.
She was later transported under false pretenses by her husband, who deceitfully told her family he was sending her away for her safety amid ethnic violence. Upon reaching a Kuki village near Ningthoukhong Gate, she collapsed from extreme exhaustion and the severity of her injuries. Her family, upon retrieving her, found her body covered in extensive bruises, clear evidence of prolonged violence.
A Kuki women Ms Nengneihoi married to a Meitei Mr Inaocha Khaidem was brutally tortured by her Meitei husband and meira paibis and set her away.She also had survived an attempted murder by Arambai tenggol by slitting her throat and left to die in 2023. @barandbench pic.twitter.com/kkEcRVeALZ
— Jangmin Touthang (@JangminTouthan1) April 28, 2025
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She was rushed by members of the philanthropic group Kuki Khanglai Lawmpi to Churachandpur District Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.
In response to the horrific abuse, KWOHR has issued a scathing condemnation, expressing profound outrage over the treatment of Ngeneihoi and sharply criticizing the role of the Meira Paibis.
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Adding to the gravity of the situation, KWOHR highlighted that this was not the first time Ngeneihoi had faced violence. In 2023, she narrowly survived an attempted murder allegedly carried out by members of the extremist group Arambai Tengol, who slit her throat and left her for dead on a roadside, only for her to be saved by the timely intervention of the Manipur Police.
Amid the President’s Rule in Manipur, one Kuki woman was physically and psychologically tortured by her Meitei husband Mr Inaocha Khaidem.
The Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights (KWOHR) strongly condemns these barbaric and inhumane acts perpetrated against a 21-year-old… pic.twitter.com/mXYIYdrAnx
— Sumkawn (@Sumkawn) April 27, 2025
n contrast, a representative from a Meitei organization, when contacted, dismissed any ethnic angle in the tragic episode and described it as a domestic dispute. “The husband is a drunkard and a habitual offender. This is a domestic issue, not an ethnic one,” the spokesperson claimed.
However, several members of the Kuki community this correspondent spoke to disagreed with that characterization. They acknowledged that while the husband may indeed be a “drunkard” or a “criminal,” the woman was clearly tortured by others because she was a Kuki. “It cannot simply be dismissed as a case of domestic violence,” they said.
Rejecting the “domestic violence” narrative, the Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights (KWOHR) appealed to national and international human rights bodies, women’s rights groups, and civil society organizations to intervene to ensure justice for Ngeneihoi and to protect vulnerable Kuki women.
“Justice must prevail. Silence is complicity,” said Kimneih oi Lhungdim, General Secretary of KWOHR, highlighting the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in Manipur.
