• Nagaland Govt given 15 days to bring CBI inquiry
• Demands arrest of all alleged ‘kingpins’
DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 19 (MExN): A public meeting was held on September 10, at Hotel Lake Shilloi, Dimapur to deliberate on the issue of oil adulteration in the state. The meeting was attended by several civil society organizations.
The meeting resolved to form a Coordinating Committee on Fuel Adulteration comprising of two representatives each from Naga Council Dimapur, NTC, NWHD, CAVCA, CCCTA, BAN, YAN, DUCCF, NMDA, DEEHA, Diphupar Naga Students’ Union, ENSUD, DALT, SN, NHRA, EDBA, Consumer Society, Petroleum Dealers’ Association, Chumoukedima Town Youth Organisation, and DDCF to pursue the matter.
This was informed in a press note from the coordinating committee. The House resolved to serve 15 days time to the Nagaland State Government to bring in the CBI for thorough investigation of the fuel adulteration issue. It also resolved that all the adulteration kingpins should be re-arrested.
In the event of failure by the state Government to fulfil demand no.2, the coordinating committee cautioned that it will enforce bandh on national highways within the state “in any form it deems fit.”
The co-ordination committee further informed that it will submit the public memorandum to the state government through the office of the Chief Secretary at its convenient time. The public resolution will take effect only after the memorandum has been formally handed over to the Chief Secretary, it added.
It stated that based on “circumstantial evidences, it is indeed horrifying that crucial evidences related to the case should be tampered with like it happened with the oil tankers.”
The committee expressed concern that the whole case is being handled “in such an unprofessional and incompetent manner,” and informed that the house “unanimously decided that there can be no further mishandling of the case nor the case allowed to be picked apart.”
The “unanimous opinion,” the committee said “was that all the guilty parties in the fuel racket should be punished as per the FIR filed by the ACAUT.”
