Our Correspondent
Imphal | January 29
The Manipur BJP today demanded that Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh, who was in charge of Home when Chungkham Sanjit Meitei killing was taken place, should resign and Imphal West Superintendent of Police Akoijam Jhalajit should be suspended until the verdict in the alleged fake encounter case is announced.
Manipur Police head constable Thounaojam Herojit Singh recently confessed to have killed Sanjit Meitei, an alleged former PLA activist in a fake encounter inside a drug store on BT Road here on July 23, 2009. The suspended cop while talking to a select media had also claimed that he shot dead Sanjit as he was ordered to do so by the then Imphal West Additional SP Akoijam Jhalajit Singh. He also claimed that then DGP of Manipur Police Yumnam Joykumar Singh and Chief Minister Okram Ibobi were aware of the killing.
Manipur BJP president Th Chaoba, who is currently in a visit to New Delhi, released a statement today, which added that 1527 cases of staged encounters that took place in Manipur in the past three decades are presently pending in Supreme Court. Of this, 1200 cases were reported during the period between 2002 and 2012, Chaoba said.
He said the 1200 cases were registered during the Congress government headed by Okram Ibobi who became the Chief Minister for a third consecutive term in 2012. Chaoba claimed that 22-year-old Sanjit Meitei and Thokchom Rabina Devi, a pregnant woman, were killed in the July 23 fake encounter during the Congress regime. The incident occurred when the state assembly session was in progress.
Moments after the youth and the woman were killed at the site located close to the assembly building, CM Ibobi told the House that there were no other means except slaying, which later created a big controversy. The state BJP chief said Sanjit killing case now has become a national issue and appealed to the Centre to punish all culprits involved in the alleged fake encounter.
The CBI has been handling the case since it was handed to the Central agency in 2010.
