CSWO demands NIA probe into IB official’s killing

SHILLONG: The CSWO has condemned the killing of Intelligence Bureau officer Bikash Kumar Singh and cloth merchant Kamal Saha and has demanded a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the twin killing.
The CSWO said an NIA probe was necessary to quell fear among officials serving in the State.
“The organization is informed from inside sources that there are many targeted killings and kidnappings, while the coal barons and businessmen having proximity and sharing business of coal quarries with high ranking cops of the State are never targeted but instead seems to be allowed to get away  with any crime. In West Khasi Hills militants seem to be walking freely with weapons and khukris,”  the CSWO said.
The organization was also informed that Bikash Kumar Singh had got wind of very important information in Shillong and he was transferred to South Garo Hills after that, it claimed.
“Fake encounters are encouraged and perpetrators are awarded the President’s Medal and the State medal. Honest and hard working officials and personnel are sidelined, kicked around as footballs or killed. This puts in danger the lives of many honest officers and personnel, who want to speak out against wrong doings in the system, but fear for their lives,” the CSWO added.