Death of Rajen: Protestors demand action against killer
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Imphal, October 05 2012: Hundreds of people took out in the streets of Imphal on Friday demanding the state Government to take up appropriate steps to book the culprits involved in the killing of Amom Rajen in West Bengal.

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) seeking justice for the family of Rajen organised a protest rally participated by hundreds of locals from the native village of Rajen, mostly women attired in white clothes.

They attempted to storm the Chief Minister's official residence but the police thwarted it.

They arrived here in the afternoon right in front of the Raj Bhawan by buses and other light vehicles from Wangoo village Terakhong in Bishnupur district of Manipur.

The protesters holding placards then proceeded towards the Chief Minister's official residence.

However, they were stopped by the police on their way near Nupilal Complex.

The protesters held Placards which read like "Arrest the culprits,"Proper ex-gratia must be given" and "Provide a Government job to his family" .

Womenfolks demanding justice to Thiyam Rajen, who was reported missing but found killed near a police station in WB

After a brief standoff between the demonstrators and the police near Nupilal Complex a few metres from the Chief Minister's bungalow, the latter allowed seven representatives of the JAC to meet Chief Minister O Ibobi and submit him a memorandum.

On the sidelines of the demonstration, one of the family members of Rajen told journalists that the JAC wanted to draw the attention of the state Government on the death of Rajen and accordingly take proper steps to deliver justice.

The JAC called the tragic incident of Rajen an unnatural death saying he had been murdured.

It also demanded the state Government to nab the culprits involved in the killing by pursuing the Government of West Bengal.

It also said Rajen was innocent.

The Chief Minister has been apprised through the memorandum that Amom Rajen, a teacher by profession was working at Paradise School Kankar in Chhatisgarh as an assistant teacher for the last more than one decade.

He came back home before the recent Panchayat polls held in the state but left home again for Chhatisgarh along with his 6-year-old daughter, Carolina on September 23 last.

Rajen tried to get train ticket for Chhatisgarh keeping his daughter near a ticket counter in Hawrah Railway Station, Kolkata on the morning of September 25.However, there was no sign of him for several hours and he was never returned then.

His family found his lifeless body at a hospital mortuary near Cossipore Police Station, Hawrah on September 28 .

The JAC has also demanded to give ex-gratia to the next of kin and the wife of the murdered husband be provided a suitable Government job, and a judicial enquiry be instituted into the killing at an early date.