The truth behind the ploy of ordering inquiries
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: August 11, 2014 -
Taking up the hearing on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed jointly by Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families' Association (EEVFAM) and Human Rights Alert (HRA) way back in October 2012, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MY Iqbal on August 8, 2014 has ordered the Government of Manipur to furnish the copies of the reports of the judicial inquiries conducted by it in connection with 27 cases of alleged extrajudicial killings to all parties concerned.
This means that the family members of the victims would be able to see the reports of the inquiries conducted which the State Government has kept concealed from revealing all these years.
These 27 cases which are under the scanner of the apex court form part of the 1528 cases of alleged extrajudicial killings that took place in Manipur during the period from 1979 to 2012 which EEVFAM and HRA have documented and submitted to the apex court while filing their joint petition.
The request for fresh look into the 27 cases have come about after the Supreme Court appointed Commission headed by retired Justice Santosh Hedge found that all the six cases that were referred to it for examination by the apex court were not genuine encounters contrarily to what the authorities of the State and Central paramilitary forces claimed.
The order of the Supreme Court for furnishing the reports of the judicial inquiries conducted by the Government of Manipur to all parties concerned including the family members of the alleged victims of fake encounters has once again shown the true nature of the State administration.
After every public outcry over alleged killing of people in fake encounters, the State administration has conveniently employed institution of judicial inquiries as a perfect ploy to quell the public anger.
But the inquiry reports of the same submitted to the Government never see the light of the day.
While concealing of the inquiry reports ordered by itself has not only shown the insincerity of the State administration towards ensuring justice to the people, such acts of concealment has strongly point to the fact that there is more in these reports.
That is the only possible reason for the State administration to try its level best to keep all these inquiry reports under the carpet.
So, one expect the unexpectedly expected to spring up when the copies of the same were furnished to the family members of the alleged victims of fake encounters.
Nonetheless, it is so unfortunate that it has taken a Supreme Court order to reveal the contents in the reports of the various inquiry commissions set up by the Government of Manipur into alleged killing of innocent people or otherwise in fake encounter cases.
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