{"id":44697,"date":"2015-06-13T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44697"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:43:01","slug":"indian-rights-commission-recommends-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/13\/indian-rights-commission-recommends-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian rights commission recommends compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0By NJ Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Guwahati: Indian National Human Rights Commission recently recommended that Manipur government in northeast India to pay Rs.5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Sorokhiabam Jibon Singh, who was killed in an encounter at Chandanadi Lamkhai\u00a0 of Imphal west district of Manipur on 1st July 2009.\u00a0 The Commission, while recommending the monetary relief observed that in the facts and circumstances of the case, even assuming that there was an encounter as claimed by police, there could be no justification for such excessive use of force.<\/p>\n<p>On consideration of material on record received from the State government, in response to its notices since 2010, the Commission observed that from the perusal of magisterial enquiry report, it is clear that inquiry officer had not associated family members of the deceased with the enquiry.\u00a0 Thus, the enquiry report did not inspire confidence,\u201d said a statement issued by the rights commission.<\/p>\n<p>From the perusal of the post-mortem examination report, there were ten entrance wounds on the inter-costal region and abdomen and ten exit wounds on the backside of the body.\u00a0 Apart from it, there were firearm injuries on the right forearm and axilla.\u00a0 The injuries sustained by the deceased were not only fatal but also large in number indicating that police used excessive force during encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The Manipur police claimed that on receiving information that some hardcore members of KCP (MC) were loitering for committing prejudicial activities like kidnapping of government officials for ransom, a combined team was constituted.\u00a0 At about 9 pm of the day, while patrolling from Chajing village side, two youths were found moving on foot at the Narankonjin Chingjen in a very suspicious manner.\u00a0 They were asked to stop, but they opened fire, which was retaliated.\u00a0 One unknown armed youth was killed on the spot and another escaped towards Narankonjin Village side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Indian National Human Rights Commission recently recommended that Manipur government in northeast India to pay Rs.5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of Sorokhiabam Jibon Singh, who was killed in an encounter at Chandanadi Lamkhai\u00a0 of Imphal west district of Manipur on 1st July 2009.\u00a0 The Commission, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}