Court serves notice in alleged fake encounter killing case
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 04 2011:
The Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench has issued notice, returnable within four weeks period, to the Union Defence Ministry and other concerned in connection with killing of a person by security forces under in alleged 'fake' encounter in January 2009 .
The court passed the order after hearing to a petition filed by Kh Pushpa Devi wife of Khangembam Priyokumar who was killed by a combined force of state and central security forces.
The petitioner prayed the court to give a direction to the respondents to hand over the case to an independent investigating agency for investigation alleging that her husband was killed in a stage managed encounter.
She also sought to direct the respondent to pay adequate compensation for unjustified killing of her husband.
The then 26-year old Priyokumar of Wangjing Tekcham Leikai was killed by the combined force on January 4, 2009 after allegedly picked up from his way to a printing press at Wangjing Bazar for printing invitation card of churakoron ceremony of his son, Nungshithoiba.
His dead body was found at RIMS morgue when family and relative search for his whereabouts after he failed to return home.
The petitioner alleged that her husband was taken by the security forces at Ishok Ching area along with one of his friends Nehru Singh and beaten there.
On intervention by the local women, the security force had taken him and his friend at Ishok Ching and shot them there in an alleged encounter.
After knowing the facts, the petitioner made a written report with the SP CBI, Imphal on October 16, 2010 narrating the whole facts accusing the involvement of security forces and some of her local co-villagers for taking up a regular case.
The petitioner, then, went to SP Thoubal when SP CBI Imphal asked her to approach the concerned civil police and submitted the written report to the officer-in-charge Thoubal PS.
However, the SP and OC failed to initiate a case against the accused persons.
The case was filed against the Union Defence secretary, 57 Mountain Division, CO of the 12 Maratha Li at Mayang Imphal, state principal secretary (home), state DGP, Thoubal SP, OC of Wangoi PS, RIMS director and SP of CBI.