SHILLONG, Nov 9 NNN : Jowai Sub-Inspector RA Sangma Friday failed to depose before the Justice Rajkhowa Inquiry Commission probing into the May 31, 2009 sensational Shillong jailbreak since he has been ‘untraceable’ for the last one year which made the Steering Committee against Murder of Democracy (SCAMoD) to suspect foul play by the police.
At the hearing, the Commission said that the West Jaintia hills district Superintendent of Police in his reply to the commission summoning order informed that the Sub-Inspector RA Sangma could not be served personally since he remained “untraced” from service for the last one year.
However accepting the request made by the SCAMoD, the commission passed an order directing the Secretary of the Commission to issue a ‘Public Notice’ with regard to non-appearance of SI RA Sangma named as Commission’s witness asking him to depose before the commission in the next hearing scheduled to be held on November 20.
“The commission had accepted our prayer by directing the secretary to issue public notice through an English daily and a Garo daily asking Sangma that wherever he is, he needs to depose before the commission in the next hearing,” SCAMoD counsel Poonam Yadav told reporters here after the hearing.
Stating that the committee is trying to bring out the truth and making all efforts not leaving any stone un-turn, Yadav however said, “The missing of the officer has gave rooms to suspicious and created doubts because they (police) have not given any supporting documents to prove on this regard,” adding, “We have to examine some officers to certify that he (Sangma) is really missing for one year.”
“If it is really true, the question is why have the police failed to give any missing report, file FIR or some departmental proceedings when they officer has been missing for the last one year,” she argued adding “Just giving a letter, we are in a dilemma whether to believe the report or not. And this only give scope to suspect and doubt that it is true or not.”
Saying that Sangma is a very important witness to the case, the SCAMoD counsel said, “Sangma was the officer who had conducted the inquest report on the slain Fullmoon Dhar who was shot by the police which in fact was found contrary to what the police are trying to hide by filing of the affidavit.”She added, “We feel that there is some other truth to the whole case.”
The counsel further stated that we wanted him to come and depose before the commission because the inquest report,” adding, “We wanted to further clarify these things of course we have already established inquest made by him (Sangma) through some other witnesses but since he is the one so we wanted to make thing more clear.”
According to the Counsel, the injuries described in the inquest are different from the injuries described in the post-mortem.
“So there is a possibility that earlier Fullmoon Dhar was shot in a different manner may be from the front side may be it is not an encounter and later on they (police) realize they want to show it as an encounter and they might have shot him from behind,” she said adding.
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