JAC fumes over failure to find bodies
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 24 2023: The JAC Against the Brutal Killing of Two Students (Phijam Hemanjit and Hijam Linthoingambi) by Kuki Militants has expressed disappointment over the CBI's failure to recover the bodies of the two young students till date.

Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club here today, JAC convenor Leikhram Kanta said that they have been on relay hunger strike since October 3 demanding justice in the cold blooded murder of the two students.

With both the Central Government and the State Govt showing no urgency to deliver justice, the relay hunger strike has lost its meaning, he said.

Denouncing the Government's lackadaisical attitude towards the grave injustice done to the two innocent students, the JAC convenor said that they would take a decision in consultation with CSOs, youth clubs and Meira Paibi organisations to launch intense forms of agitation.

He said that the JAC submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister on September 26 .

"Till date, the Chief Minister was listening to us but nowadays, we are not receiving any satisfactory response from him", he said.

Now he is speaking in a language that reeks of an intention to settle the matter with monetary compensation, Kanta said.

The CBI has already six persons including the mastermind of the cold blooded murder but the investigation agency is still unable to recover the bodies, he said.

JAC co-convenor Ngashepam Bimola said that the JAC, if necessary, may take the responsibility of searching the bodies together with the public.

She decried that neither the Government nor the CBI has so far informed the JAC or the bereaved families on the status of the investigation.

She informed that the JAC is prepared to call off the ongoing relay hunger strike and launch intense forms of agitation.

Hijam Linthoingambi and Phijam Hemanjit went missing on July 6.Two photographs, one taken when they were alive and another of their dead bodies surfaced on social media on September 25, and the two photographs shocked and shook the State.

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