Imphal, May 24 2009: The state government today turned down the demand of conducting judicial enquiry into the killing of L Satish during a talk with the representative of the Committee formed in connection with the killing.

Meanwhile, the down to dusk highway bandh called by the Committee on the Killing of L Satish alias Tomba concluded at 6 pm peacefully without any untoward incident during the bandh hour.

Representatives of the Committee on the Killing of L Satish @ Tomba this afternoon called on with the chief minister, O Ibobi with a resolution of a public meeting held at Mayengbam Leikai to demand conduct of judicial enquiry to find out the truth behind the murder of Satish.

Despite insistence from the committee side to conduct judicial enquiry, Ibobi stand by his word to conduct magisterial enquiry.

With this, there could not reach any agreement on the matter.

As such the committee has got ready to intensify agitation.

The public meeting also resolved to provide adequate security escort to Gunindro who survived the ordeal as he escaped from the jaw of dead with the warning of killing him if he disclosed the truth behind the killing of Satish before he was handed over to Lamlai police.

The meeting also taking serious note of the spree of killing of men by the security forces and expressing concern of the society become dominated by widows such spate of killing continue resolved to urged the state government to extract power to kill people by the security forces.

It also demanded immediate extract of special power act from the security force by repealing of AFSPA from the state.

On the other hand, traffic along the stretch of the Indo-Myanmar section of the NH-39 paralyzed Sunday owing to down to dusk bandh along the stretch imposed by Committee on the Killing of L Satish allegedly in fake encounter by the security forces.

Police have a hard time while dispersing the protestors and resumed the normal traffic.

However, despite repeated police action f firing tear gas and other mob ammunition devises, protestors repeated disturbed the normal traffic till the last hour of the bandh which commenced from 6 am and went on till 6 pm.

Anguish people on knowing the truth behind the killing of L Satish, a 34-year old youth hailing from Singjamei, Imphal by security forces as related by his friend who was abducted together yesterday imposed the 12-hour bandh on the highway effective from 6 am this morning till 6 pm of this evening.

In the early hour of the bandh, residents mostly womenfolk took out on the stretch of the highway from Singjamei parking to Kakwa area and imposed the bandh by preventing traffic movement.

Police fired several rounds of tear gas and used mob ammunition shells in the bid to disperse the protestors and allow normal flow of vehicles.

Despite police best efforts, they have a hard time in dispersing the protestors and resume the normal traffic till the concluding hour.

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