Yayik Niling, woman who died fighting sexual assaulter, hailed as "hero" by Arunachalees

ITANAGAR: Thousands of people in Upper Subansiri district on Thursday took out a candlelight march for late Yayik Niling, who was killed on November 27 while trying to fend off her sexual assaulter at Niling Village.

The march was headed by the All Nilling Youth Association and joined by the Upper Subansiri unit of the women welfare society, the All Upper Subansiri District Students’ Union, the All Tagin Students’ Union and the All Tagin Youth Organization, besides several women and school students.

The citizens condemned the murder of the deceased and termed it a "rare, barbaric act" and sought capital punishment for the culprit.

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They also appealed for the need to improve the law and order scenario in the district.

Meanwhile, the husband of the deceased has appealed to the law enforcing authority to “award capital punishment to the culprit or hand him over to the aggrieved family to be dealt with as per the Tagin customary law.”

As per police reports, the woman was killed on Friday while trying to fight off Babul Noroh (20), who was trying to sexually assault her.

Noroh from Laluk, Assam, was arrested on Sunday in Upper Subansiri district.

 “Her chest was pierced with a spear and her neck had cut marks from a machete (dao),” the police had informed then.

Yayik ’s husband was in Itanagar for medical treatment during the time of the incident.

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