Final hearing begins
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 16 2023:
Final argument hearing of the July 23, 2009 BT Road fake encounter killing began yesterday at the Court of Session Judge, Imphal East and it would continue till tomorrow.
The final argument hearing began after examination of the nine charge-sheeted police personnel was completed.
All the accused police personnel except Thokchom Jagat and Thounaojam Herojit were present at the Court but Jagat and Herojit were represented by their respective counsels.
The Court, after hearing the submission of Special PP CBI in length, fixed tomorrow for continuation hearing.
Altogether nine police personnel were charge-sheeted by CBI after investigating the July 23, 2009 BT Road firing incident in which a pregnant woman, Thokchom Rabina and Chungkham Sanjit who was allegedly unarmed were killed.
The charge-sheeted police personnel include then OC of City police station Y Munal, Hijam Devendro, Thounaojam Herojit, Ngangom Toyaima, Wahengbam Binoykumar, Thokchom Jagat, Md Imran Khan, Oinam Keshor and Makan Kanchung Chothi.
During the trial of the case, CBI had produced founder cum former Editor of Tehelka Magazine Tarun Tejpal and Managing Director of Tehelka Magazine Shoma Chaudhury as prosecution witnesses.
Tejpal submitted that the photographs published in Tehelka Magazine about the 23 July incident were genuine and they were not edited or tampered.
Notably, the case was handed over to CBI by the State Government after sequential photographs of the incident were published in Tehelka magazine.