Judicial enquiry into Assam girl’s death
Guwahati: A one-man judicial enquiry commission has been constituted in Assam to investigate the killing of school girl Priya Basumatary allegedly by NDFB(S) terrorists suspecting her to be police informer.
“The commission headed by Justice (Retired) BD Agarwal, a retired Judge of Gauhati High Court was formed on September 25,” an official release said.
The Commission is constituted to enquire the circumstances leading to the killing of Basumatary allegedly by NDFB extremists on August 20 in Chirang district, it added.
The commission will also look into whether there was any inaction on the part of police administration and district administration.
“The commission will also suggest measures so that such incidents can be prevented in future,” the statement said adding that the report would be submitted within three months.
On August 20, five NDFB(S) terrorists were killed at Dwimuguri in Chirang in an encounter by a joint team of Assam Police and Army.
Following this, a group of NDFB(S) militants came to the village in the same evening from the adjoining dense jungles of Chirang Reserve Forest and dragged out Basumatary from her house and shot her dead in front of her parents and villagers.
Next day, NDFB(S) released a video to local electronic media and said that they had killed the girl for being “an informer and our five members were not killed by the Army but members of NDFB (Daimary) group”.
Police and Army could not recover the body for more than 24 hours saying that “the village is located in a very remote area and only approachable on foot” and “the local villagers were unwilling to co-operate out of fear”.
Villagers recovered the body and brought it to Salbari and then police team took it to Kajalgaon Civil Hospital on August 21. (PTI)
Disaster training -programme in Mizoram
Aizawl: Mizoram Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Minister C. Ngunlianchunga on Tuesday inaugurated the two-week training of Young Mizo Association (YMA) volunteers on disaster response at the headquarters of the Fifth India Reserve battalion in Lungverh near Aizawl. At the initial training which began on Tuesday. 54 members of the YMA, including two girls, would be imparted training by experts from the First battalion of the National Disaster Response Force (NDPF), Guwahati. The minister said that the YMA, which has a unit in every village has become the first response force in any disaster that hit the state and proper scientific training would come a long way in prevention and mitigation of disaster. Training of a few members of the YMA in each village and locality would help the people before the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) could arrive at a disaster site, he added. Meanwhile, the state government was making efforts to ensure that at least 100 trained SDRF personnel were there in each of the eight armed police battalions in the state. (PTI)
200 Baptist delegates to participate in IMS summit
Kohima: About 1200 Baptist delegates from Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, north eastern region and south India will celebrate their common heritage in the India Mission Summit (IMS) in Kohima from October 2 to 5 under the theme “Celebrating the past, envisioning the future’. Despite their different social cultural backgrounds, they share the same feelings for the sacrificial love of American Baptist missionaries who started their ministries in India more than 175 years ago, IMS Coordinator Rev K Linyu and general secretary BOBBCA general secretary Rev Samaresh Nayak told a press conference here ton Tuesday. The summit is designed to provide joyful worship, close fellowship and mutual learning while the delegates will engage in serious Biblical reflections, he said. Christian leaders and scholars like Valson Thampu, Principal of St Stephen’s College of Delhi University and John Dayal, Co-founder and Secretary General of the All India Christian Council, will help the congregation to understand and respond to critical issues facing the India churches, such as, “21st Century India Mega Trends”, “Religious Liberty”, “Human Trafficking, “Youth and Future Leaders” and “Christian Stewardship”. The summit is hosted by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) on behalf of the Council of Baptist Churches in North East India. (PTI)
Assam forms one-man panel to probe advocate murder
Guwahati: Assam Government on Monday said an enquiry committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Industries, Commerce, Mines and Minerals) RT Jindal has been formed to investigate the murder of senior advocate and businessman Binoy Kumar Ghosh. “The state government vide a notification issued on September 25, 2014, has constituted a one-man enquiry committee headed by RT Jindal, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, Industries and Commerce, Mines and Minerals Department,” an official release said. The Committee is constituted to enquire into the incident of murder of Ghosh by unknown miscreants early morning of August 29, 2014 at his residence in Mangaldai town in Darrang district, it added. “The Commission will ascertain facts and circumstances leading to the murder of Ghosh and will determine if there were any lapses on the part of any authority for providing security to Ghosh. And if so, will fix responsibility thereof,” the statement said. Besides inquiring into any other matter relevant to the case, the Committee will also suggest measures so that such incidents do not recur. The Committee will submit its report within 30 days from the date of issue of the notification, the release said. (PTI)