Action of security personnel on June 18, 2001
HRA, EEVFAM lay bare probe report
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 18 2021:
The Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association (EEVFAM) and Human Rights Alert have claimed that though the Upendra Commission had observed that the firing by security personnel on June 18, 2001 leading to the death of many protesters was not at all justifiable, the State Government had refused to make public the findings of the inquiry.
The Commission had submitted its report in January 2002 and it is only now that EEVFAM and HRA have been able to get hold of a copy of its findings, said the two rights bodies.
The Commission had ruled "...it is found that the actions of the security forces were made without any justifiable cause or it had exceeded the reasonable limits, appropriate action should be taken up against the wrong doers and such persons should not be let off scot free" .
The Supreme Court had also ordered the CBI to investigate the incident along with 38 other cases, said EEVFAM and HRA.
Accordingly, CBI registered a case of murder against some personnel of 81 and 121 Bn CRPF and proceeded with the investigation.
However the final report, submitted is not satisfactory as the CBI "could not obtain further documents from the State Government," said EEVFAM and HRA quoting the report submitted by the CBI on August 13, 2020 .
Outraged by the callous attitude of the officials concerned and suspecting that it could be a deliberate attempt to conceal critical documents, the families of 14 victims of the June 18 incident petitioned the State Home Department on December 18, 2020 urging to take action to recover the documents and also to take action against the erring officials, it recalled.
Anxious by the present perplexing state of affairs and driven by compelling need to preserve the remaining pieces of the historic event, the bodies are reprinting the "Report of Upendra Judicial Commision of Inquiry", it said.