Dimapur, May 14 (MExN): The ‘general court martial’ (GCM) of the NSCN (IM) looking into the murder case of Dr Kishan and his driver Aribam Rajen and another official Y. Token on February 17, 2009 near Senapati , has found “lt. colonel” Hopeson Ningshen, the then “commanding officer of the Kiusumong Battalion Naga army posted in Wung Tangkhul region”, as guilty.
Informing of this, an MIP note of the outfit stated that as per “The Naga army act” of “rules and regulation (NAARR) 2002”, Ningshen has been ‘convicted’ as being guilty of abduction, illegal detention and ultimate murder of Dr.Kishan and his two associates Aribam Rajen and Y. Token on the 17th of February 2009 under what was stated to be ‘article 70 clause 3, sub clause V article 76 clause ii of NAARR’.
The outfit has terminated Hopeson Ningshen, with immediate effect, from the service of the ‘Naga army’. The GCM also dismissed all his ‘services’ rendered to the ‘nation’. All ‘military decoration’ as well as ranks awarded to him have been stripped off, it was stated. He is also to undergo ‘rigorous imprisonment’ of seven years counting from the day he was ‘arrested’.
Besides he will have to pay a fine of Rs. 50,000/- (fifty thousand) only to the GPRN. In default of which he shall undergo simple imprisonment for another one year six months.
The GCM has however “discovered that the murder was committed not without provocation” and that the “arrogance added with reckless corruption of Dr. Kishan the SDO of Kasom Block has not only shocked the people of the area but it has also infuriated all the people including Lt. Colonel Hopeson Ningshen who is also from the same area”. “Repeated warning against running his office at Imphal went unheeded and the deceased did remain impenitent about his corruption in spite of public outcry”, stated the MIP press note.
The NSCN (IM) has stated that the Deputy Commissioner of Ukhrul Pankaj Kumar Pal had a “long standing and violent ego clash with his SDO” and that the IAS officer “exploited the situation leading to the ultimate murder of the latter”. “Circumstantial evidences have convicted the Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pal as the master mind of the murder of Dr. Kishan and his two staffs”, the MIP note stated.
The MIP note also pointed out that the Chief Minister of Manipur O. Ibobi Singh who is also the Home Minister and Ranjit Singh, Work Minister had visited Kasom Khullen the next day of abduction of Dr. Kishan and Staffs and that they had to share responsibility in the death of the victims. “They must therefore be prosecuted as required by law”.
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