TURA: One of Tura’s most prominent advocate and senior member of the Tura Bar Association, Livingstone Gabil Momin has passed away on Monday evening. He was one day away from his 90th birthday.
A well known and successful criminal and civil lawyer, Momin single-handedly took on the then Meghalaya government’s One Man Enquiry Commission set up following widespread protests over the police firing on protestors in 2005.
Nine people, mostly students lost their lives when police opened fire on protestors over the controversial MBOSE restructuring in Tura and Williamnagar on September 30, 2005.
Taking on India’s leading criminal advocate KTS Tulsi, who was leading the government side in the One Man Commission headed by retired Justice D N Chaudhury to probe the twin firing incidents, Momin successfully argued the case leading to the court indicting the Meghalaya government for the firing in Tura where
Four protestors, among the nine deceased, were killed.
A founder member of the Tura Bar Association, Momin played a major role in establishing the first ever Law College of Tura at New Tura.
Monin was also appointed the first principal of the College which has since helped many a successful candidate to become advocate in Tura and other districts of Garo Hills.
Momin was the father of Former Tura MLA John Leslee K Sangma.