PMKSY ex-nodal officer
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 25 2023:
A complaint for formal process to take punitive actions against former PMKSY nodal officer of agriculture department namely AK Bowjit for alleged criminal conspiracy, threatening and abetment of crime causing the killing of L Rameshwar, has been lodged to Manipur DGP by Laishram Romila w/o Ayekpam Kishorjit, who has been arrested in connection with the killing.
In her complaint letter submitted to the DGP, Romila said that her husband has been carrying out social works in the state since his college days and now as a human rights defender, he has been making good use of RTI Act and was able to collect information regarding the beneficiary list of PMKSY recently.
Since the agriculture department failed to issue public notice regarding the beneficiaries' list, her husband voluntarily conducted field verification of the beneficiaries for the last 20 days during which' he received threats over the phone from AK Bowjit warning her husband to stop the verification process, Romila said, while adding that Bowjit threatened her husband with dire consequences if the field verification was not stopped immediately.
She further informed in her complaint that when her husband went to visit a beneficiary in Thoubal dis trict on January 24, 2023, Bowjit and her husband had a verbal spat at the benefi ciary's house during which an unidentified person came with a gun and forcefully detained her husband on the false charge that he (Kishor-jit) was coming to demand money from the beneficiary and tried to shoot him.
It was during that moment that her husband took out his gun and fired at the unknown person in self-defence.
Informing that the unknown person was later identified as L Rameshwar, who was instigated and hired by AK Bowjit for concealing misappropriation of funds and corruption, Romila said that the incident was indirectly orchestrated by Bowjit and his men and that her husband got caught in the conspiracy.
Therefore, necessary legal actions need to be taken up against Bowjit for abetting the crime lead ing to the killing of Ramesh war, Romila said.