UNLF warns of death penalty for rape

A proscribed underground organisation in Manipur, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) has warned that rapists, murderers of women and owners of restaurants and hotels that encouraged immoral activities may have to face death penatly. Such hotels and restaurants would also be destroyed, the Front said.

The announcement was made on the occasion of the golden anniversary of the outfit on Monday.

UNLF recalled that it had declared 1975 as the international year of woman and had chalked out various programmes to uplift the status of women. It had come down heavily on rapists since 1990. It promised more drastic campaigns in the future.