Cop missing since 2010
SHILLONG: Police are still clueless about the whereabouts of a Havildar from Meghalaya, who went missing in 2010 in Delhi.
Lalparmawia Lushai, who had been working as Havildar for the last 35 years with the Meghalaya Police (IRB), was posted at the Turkish Embassy, Delhi in 2010 and since then he has been missing.
The Meghalaya Police has failed to trace him even after the intervention of the High Court of Meghalaya.
The family got some relief after the state government provided some financial help and a job to his son.
It was after L Khiangte, an advocate by profession, who took up the case on humanitarian ground, the son of the Havildar got a Government job and the family also received some financial help from the Meghalaya police.
Earlier, the High Court had pulled up the police for not trying to trace out the Havildar.
According to Khiangte, it was on December 24, 2010 that the Havildar went missing from Delhi.
Finding no other option, the family approached the lawyer who agreed to help the family to get justice.
The younger brother of the missing Havildar even went to Delhi in search of him and filed an FIR.
Later, there were reports that a body was found in Delhi, but it was not of the Havildar.
The wife of the Havildar had died long time ago and his children were looked after by the grandmother.
In a whimsical manner, the Meghalaya police in February 2011 had sent notice to the family members by saying that the Havildar should join duty, otherwise his service will be terminated.
Police in fact sent three notices to the family members to their astonishment.
After the lawyer filed a writ petition in the High Court of Meghalaya, the Court, after a series of hearing directed the Government to give compensation to the family and also to provide job to a member of the family.
The Government dilly dallied for a year and after a contempt petition was filed, the home department was compelled to adhere to the direction of the Court.
Though providing job on compassionate ground was banned by the State Government, it was considered as a special case.
