By Tripura24.in Bureau
AGARTALA | June 13, 2026: Intensifying the public and political outcry over the suspicious death of 22-year-old hostel warden Manisha Das, the Shramajibee Mahila Samannay Committee (Working Women’s Coordination Committee)—an affiliate of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)—staged a massive demonstration in the capital city today.
The working women’s front hit the streets of Agartala to register a fierce protest against the Tripura Santiniketan Medical College authorities and the state’s law enforcement apparatus. They demanded the immediate formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the direct supervision of a sitting High Court judge to probe the alleged murder.
Ground Reality for Working Women Unsafe, Alleges CITU
The protestors gathered in large numbers, carrying placards and raising slogans against the rising insecurity faced by women at their workplaces. The body of the young warden was recovered from the girls’ hostel of the private medical institution on Wednesday night. While the institution and police initially looked into it as an unnatural death, the victim’s family and progressive women’s groups have firmly termed it a pre-planned and calculated murder.
Addressing the gathering, senior leaders of the Shramajibee Mahila Samannay Committee stated that standard police inquiries are often compromised when dealing with powerful private entities and influential institutional managements.
”A young, 22-year-old woman goes to her workplace to earn a livelihood, and her body is recovered under highly mysterious conditions inside a high-security campus. This is a severe blow to the confidence of every working woman in Tripura. We completely reject routine police delays. The state government must immediately constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) monitored directly by a sitting judge of the High Court to ensure that no evidence is tampered with and the real perpetrators are brought to book,” a frontline CITU woman leader asserted.
Call for Mass Mobilization to Ensure Workplace Safety
The coordination committee pointed out that institutional negligence cannot be tolerated, especially within medical and educational campuses that house hundreds of female students and staff members.
The leadership warned the state administration that today’s demonstration is merely the beginning of a larger, state-wide resistance. They announced that if the Home Department fails to initiate a judicially-monitored SIT probe within the next 48 hours, the CITU-backed working women’s units will organize massive industrial blockades, picketing programs outside government offices, and continuous civil agitations across all districts of Tripura to guarantee justice for Manisha Das and secure safety guidelines for all working women.
