Morung Express News
DIMAPUR OCT 15: The Tuensang and Mon Public Organization (TMPO) maintaining that only one of the three demands made by the organization to the State Government had been acceded to pertaining to the killing of late Peter Yimchunger on September 15, warned that in the event of failure to fulfill the remaining demands, the body would be forced to take it’s own course of action. This was conveyed in a letter to the Home Minister, Nagaland by the TMPO through Tsupongse Sangtam, Chairman Executive Council and Kius Chuba, Joint Secretary, TMPO.
The TMPO referring to the three demands submitted to the Government of Nagaland in the aftermath of the killing of Peter Yimchunger by the bodyguards of the ADC (J) Mokokchung at Silonijan, Assam on the intervening night of September 15 and 16, stated that the government had responded only to one demand – appointing C Chemkila Yimchunger, wife of the deceased, as Police Constable (General Duty). The two remaining demands, namely that the ADC (J), and his bodyguards involved be immediately terminated from service and given a befitting punishment and the next to the kin of the deceased be given an ex-gratia payment of Rs 20, 00,000 (Twenty lakhs) was still not responded to, it stated.
Citing the incident and maintaining presence of proper witnesses who would testify to the same, the letter stated that the State government had appointed the Commissioner and Secretary, Nagaland as One-man Inquiry to look into the matter with an order to submit a report within a week from the date of the issue of the said order i.e., September 17. However, the one-Man inquiry “turned up at Tuensang” and took statements from the passengers of the bus involved only on September 30, after a delay of 13 days, the TMPO alleged in the letter.
Stating that the ADC (J) who was actually supposed to be ‘the custodian of the law’ had become a murderer and deserving of the death penalty was still “left” at large, the organization lamented that the state seemingly had no criminal act to deal with a cold-blooded murderer. In this regard, the latter reminded that the TMPO had passed a resolution at its executive council meeting held at Longleng on September 29 to submit a representation to the Government demanding the necessary action for the fulfillment of the remaining two demands.
Taking serious cognizance of these developments, the TMPO warned that if the remaining demands are not met by the government, the organization would be forced to resort to its own course of action to justify its stand.
