Manipur News

DIMAPUR, July 3 NNN : After a long gap of maitaining silence on the Naga political issue both by the government of India and the NSCN-IM authority, the issue is in the media again.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had reportedly informed Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland CM Chang that “the issue will be solved soon”.
According to a newspaper report here, the Prime Minister had said that the government of India was “serious about the Naga problem.”
Late last year, the speculations had climaxed to the zenith that the protracted Naga political problem was about to be settled in a few months time. The speculations were even fueled by the comment of Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde who had said that “settlement” to the Naga issue would be brought about by March, 2013 or before the Nagaland assembly elections. That situation was even buttered it by the concerted show of the now-unheard Joint Legislature Forum (JLF) formed by the 60 MLAs of the Nagaland legislative assembly of the previous tenure to push for the early settlement of the Naga political proble.
Meanwhile, Naga underground leaders have left Nagaland for Thailand to participate in the ‘Naga reconciliation’ meeting to be convened by Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR).
Leaders from NSCN-Khole/Kitovi, NSCN-IM and those party to the Naga reconciliation process have left Dimapur and the meeting would be held in the next few days.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/naga-problem-will-be-solved-pm/

SHILLONG, July 3 NNN: The Khasi Students Union (KSU) has demanded that the Meghalaya government must put on hold the implementation of the “Aadhaar” – a Unique Identification Number (UIN) scheme in the state and first take the opinions of the stakeholders and also put in place a mechanism for controlling influx into Meghalaya.
Led by its president Daniel Khyirem a delegation of the KSU met Meghalaya home minister Roshan Warjir on Wednesday and put the demand forward.
According to the KSU leader, the home minister has agreed to withhold the implementation of the UIN after inquiring about its from concerned authority as she is not aware of it.
Khyriem told reporters after meeting with Warjri, “We demanded the state government to hold back the implementation of the Aadhaar in the state without having proper mechanism in place considering the influx problem that is countering the state at present.”
Khyriem also suggested that the government must invite views and opinions of people and stakeholders before going ahead with the implementation of UIN. He said, “Taking the views of the public into consideration is required.”
The enrollment of UIN rolled in the municipal area with the enrollment of the Meghalaya governor, RS Mooshahary in June. The biometric enrolment is part of the second phase of data collection for the National Population Register (NPR).
Khyriem said before going ahead with the UIN there must be a system in place to authenticate documents provided by the people especially from the non-indigenous residents while enrolling in this national exercise.”
The NPR, a comprehensive identity database, has been created to ensure the security of the country. It is the first kind in the world and has been undertaken under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and the Citizenship Rules, 2003.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ksu-opposes-aadhaar/

SHILLONG, July 3 NNN : Outgoing Meghalaya governor RS Mooshahary said that the absconding tainted CMJ University chancellor CM Jha must be traced and arrested. Even as the state CID has failed to arrest the Jha, the governor told reporters on Tuesday, “He (Jha) should have been caught that is what I feel.”
The CID had arrested four CMJ University officials that include its registrar, Mrinal Kanti Deb, deputy registrar Premlal Rai and two other university officials but failed to arrest Jha who is responsible for fraud that led to sealing off the institute.
While he said that the case may be complicated, Mooshahary nonetheless said, “The enormity of the case is so much that with limited resources that the state police have they are facing some problems but they are doing their best.”
Now that Mooshahary’s term as Meghalaya governor is over, question is being raised as to what will happen to the CMJ University case. Will it be shelved?
But Mooshahary is not pessimistic as he felt that the case has become so high-profile that it would not be possible from consigning it to the dustbin.
Mooshahary said, “I have served three notices to the state government on the matter that contains everything. I don’t think it is possible to deviate and the case will reach its logical end.”
Mooshahary, who is the visitor of the CMJ University, literally played the role of a whistleblower as he exposed irregularities taking place in the CMJ University and has now sought dissolution of the university in accordance with Section 48 of the CMJ University Act, 2009.
The CMJ University which was established in 2009 and has allegedly awarding a record number of 434 PhD degrees in the past one year apart from registering 490 more PhD scholars during the same year, which are not recognize by the UGC.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/governor-wants-absconding-vc-to-be-traced/

Mail News Service
New Delhi, July 3 : The Central Bureau of Investigation has today filed charge sheet in the Designated Court at Ahmedabad against 07 officials of Gujarat Police U/s 302, 364, 368, 346, 120-B, 201, 203, 204, 217, 218 of IPC and Section 25(1)(e), 27 of Arms Act. One more accused person, also a police official, has since expired.
It is alleged that accused officials of Gujarat Police and certain other persons were instrumental in securing illegal custody of the four persons who were subsequently abducted and later killed in a fake encounter. The persons killed were kept in illegal custody separately before the fake encounter.
The accused police officials with the help of officers of other agency obtained weapons for the purported encounter. Thereafter, five accused officials of the Gujarat Police opened fire from their official weapons on Javed, Ishrat Jahan, Jishan Johar and Amjad Ali, which resulted in their death on the spot.
The instant case was registered by the CBI on 16.12.2011 in compliance of the orders of the High Court of Gujarat.
The public is reminded that the above findings are based on the investigation done by CBI and evidence collected by it. Under the Indian Law, the accused are presumed to be innocent till their guilt is finally established after a fair trial. While stating that Ishrat, who lived in Thane, was not a terrorist as alleged by Gujarat Police, the CBI charge sheet named policemen P.P. Pande, A. Choudhary, D.G. Vanzare, Tarun Barot, J.R. Parmar and N.K. Amin among the accused.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/cbi-files-chargesheet-fake-encounter-of-ishrat-jahan/