From Our Correspondent
TURA: Condemning the recent police atrocities on local villagers in Dadenggre Sub-Division area, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) formed for the purpose is demanding immediate suspension of all the police personnel who were involved in terrorising the villagers and unconditional release of the JAC members who have been arrested on false charges.
Asserting that there was no cause for physical abuse or corporeal abuse by the police on the people of Dadenggre, the Committee is demanding for an impartial enquiry into the police brutality in the area and the erring cops involved be suspended without delay.
Stating that the recent incident of police brutality in Dadenggre is the most recent case of police brutality where innocent people, including an elderly person, a pregnant woman and a child were beaten up unprovoked by the police is a disgrace to the institution that is supposed to protect innocent people.
“The Constitution does not give the police any power to terrorise the common people but the administration seems to turn a blind eye to the wrong doings of the police. The institution that is supposed to fight insurgents to maintain law and order is terrorising the very people they are meant to protect,” JAC spokesperson Tengsak Momin said.
Opposing the use of innocent local people as guides to locate insurgents during operations by totally ignoring the safety of the individuals and forceful requisitioning of private vehicles, the JAC stated that the villagers are being used as pawns or rather as cannon fodder.
“The police are forcefully requisitioning the vehicles of individuals for their anti-insurgent operations. What is the guarantee that the owners of the vehicles will not be targeted by the insurgents?” questioned the JAC.
The JAC also informed that an FIR had been registered and three of their members were falsely arrested on charges which have been twisted. “We have also registered an FIR but the other party has not been arrested and it is not fair. Both parties should be arrested if one talks about fairness,” JAC said.
The JAC opined that it would not stand as mutes while the rights of the individuals are being trampled and are ready to fight for justice.
Bringing up the topic of fake encounters and killing of innocents, JAC questioned the magisterial enquiry into the death of Washington Sangma which was never completed and said, “We have lost our patience and will not stand for it. We will agitate for the recognition of individual rights by the police.”