Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Guwahati, December 02 2010:
Arrested United National Liberation Front (UNLF) chief RK Meghen, aka RK Sanayaima who was believed to have been brought to Assam after his 'arrest' in Bihar, is likely to be produced in a Guwahati court tomorrow.
There is no official confirmation of the whereabouts of the UNLF chief but unconfirmed sources indicate that he is in the guest house of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Guwahati.
When asked if RK Meghen has been brought to Guwahati, Assam police was non committal.
"This is a matter between the NIA and the Manipur Government.
So, we are not keeping track of it," a senior police official told Newmai News Network in Guwahati this evening without elaborating further.
Others in the police department also kept mum on the matter.
However, Meghen's counsel Advocate Gunadipdhar Singh said, "He (Meghen) is very much in Guwahati and in the custody of the NIA" .
"We got information that he will be produced in a special court on Friday.
Anyway, he has to be produced by Friday as his remand ends on that day," the advocate said.
He added, "We went to the court today (Thursday) expecting that he will be produced.
We learnt it was deferred because it was a holiday" .
RK Meghen's son RK Chinglen spent some time along with the advocate in front of the court in Guwahati today hoping to see his father.
"I have never seen him.
It's been 25 years that he has been away from me.
We were separated from each other when I was barely two years old," RK Chinglen told reporters.
"About two months back, when we came to know from various sources, especially the electronic media, about his arrest, we contacted both the Manipur and Central governments seeking information about my father.
Later on October 26, we approached the UN body WGEID.
In November, Amnesty International responded, informing us that it had written a strongly-worded letter to the Government of India asking it to disclose the whereabouts of my father," Chinglen said.
"This possibly made the MHA to make a dramatic disclosure about his arrest in Bihar," RK Chinglen said.
"NIA said our father had been arrested in Motihari, Bihar.
But everyone in Manipur knows that he was arrested in Dhaka as reported by the BBC.
There should have been some transparency in dealing with the case.
Everything was kept under wraps," he commented.