Fake Encounter::Victim's mom denounces 'wrong' affidavit filed by Manipur Government
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 07, 2013:
A mother of a victim who was killed in a fake encounter years back by security forces today came out strongly against the Principal
Secretary of the State for submitting a wrong affidavit to the Supreme Court stating that his son was a married man and that he was a father to several
children.
The Principal Secretary submitted the affidavit to the apex court in connection with the six extrajudicial killing cases probed by a Supreme
Court appointed Commission.
The Principal Secretary mentioned in the affidavit that Khumbongmayum Orsonjit was a married man and that he had children.
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team of Extrajudicial Execution Victims' Families Association, Manipur (EEVFAM) went to New Delhi to attend the hearing of the case on August 6.The team
briefed reporters on their visit to the national capital at the office of Human Rights Alert (HRA) here today.
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Kh Lata, the mother of Orsonjit, said that the state Government committed a gross error by providing wrong information that her son had wife and children.
She condemned the act of the Principal Secretary in the strongest terms saying that her son was a 19-year-old single.
HRA executive director Babloo Loitongbam, who was also present at the press briefing, informed that hearing on the six extrajudicial killings scheduled on August 6 was postponed to September 17. It was to be heard by a double- bench of Justices AK Patnaik and Khera.
The Supreme Court has sent a reminder to Manipur Government to submit the report of the state independent commission separately probing 27 extrajudicial execution cases by September 10 this year, Babloo informed.
He also condemned the state Government for submitting the wrong affidavit on Orsonjit fake encounter case to the apex court and said that it shows the lack of proper investigation by the state CID.