From Our Correspondent
NONGSTOIN: Responding to summons by the Justice PC Phukan Commission, representatives from the Nepali community residing at Langpih led by Chokro Chetri appeared before the Commission at the Circuit House, Guwahati on Monday. During the hearing Chetri allegedly blamed the other communities for the Langpih clash on May 14, 2010 which claimed four lives.
Sources informed The Shillong Times that Chetri, who deposed before the Commission, said that on May 14, 2010 there was a surprise attack by the local people which he alleged was pre-planned and instigated by some political leaders.
Speaking to this scribe soon after appearing before the PC Phukan Commission, Rambrai MDC KP Pangniang said the allegations made by the Kamrup District Administration against the local villagers was false and had no connection whatsoever with the Langpih episode.
Chetri also told the Commission that he was not present in Langpih on 14 May, 2010 as some local people had threatened to kill him a day earlier.
Regarding the allegations made by the Kamrup District administration about the attack on the Langpih Assam police out post by the local people leading to the firing incident, it is learnt that this has been hotly contested by the local residents.
They questioned how four of their kith and kin were killed less than two hundred meters away from the Langpih Assam Police Outpost. This they said is testimony to the fact that the local people did not attack the Assam police outpost as was falsely alleged by the Kamrup District administration and Chetri.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday respondents from the State including Dr P Lyngkhoi, Dr Eric Milton Wanniang of Nonglang PHC, DM Suja and DM Wahlang, former EAC of West Khasi Hills, appeared before the Commission. Dr Lyngkhoi, who conducted the postmortem of Charles Lyngkhoi, one of the four persons who died in the Langpih incident, testified that the deceased had succumbed to bullet injuries as a result of the Assam Police firing at Langpih.
Dr Wanniang also stated that Ekros Rani of Mawdiangsnam also died of bullet injuries in the Assam Police firing at a distance of less than three hundred meters away from the Langpih Assam Police Outpost.
Sources told The Shillong Times over phone that during the hearing on Tuesday the Commission had also summoned Dilip Kumar, ASI Boko Police Station, NK Baruah Circle Inspector of Chaygoan Police Outpost, BB Dev Chaudhuri, ACS Additional DC of Kamrup, Pranjeet Gogoi, EAC of Kamrup and J Gupta, DSP of Kamrup, whereas Meghalaya was represented by Advocate General of Meghalaya KS Kynjing, senior advocate ND Shullai and Fennela Lyngdoh.