Morung Express News
Dimapur | September 22
The inquiry committee set up by the Nagaland government to probe into the Pholongoni incident of September 15 met with AASU officials at Golaghat on Wednesday, September 22. The visit was made by all three members of the state probe team led by J Alam, Commissioner & Secretary Urban Development, Law & Justice and Labour & Employment; Amardeep Bhatia Commissioner & Secretary Personnel & Administrative Reforms and Nihoto Chishi, Secretary Law & Justice.
Speaking to The Morung Express Wednesday evening from Guwahati, General Secretary of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) Taban Kumar Gogoi said the meeting was attended on the Assam side by vice president of the central committee of the AASU Jatin Bora, representatives of the AASU’s Golaghat unit, civil society members and the Golaghat district administration. Three members of the Nagaland inquiry committee was at the meeting, he disclosed.
Gogoi said that the inquiry committee from Nagaland informed about the compensation announced by the Nagaland government to those who were injured in the alleged attack committed by personnel of the 12th (NAP) IR on September 15. The committee was also handed over still images as proof of the incident by the AASU officials, Gogoi disclosed.
Jatin Bora, VP of the central committee of the AASU, who attended the meeting, corroborated the handing over of the visual evidence, speaking from Golaghat. He further disclosed that video clippings were also screened at the meeting in the presence of the inquiry committee members and copies handed over to them.
Queried on the reaction of the visiting team from Nagaland, Bora replied that the probe team did not comment anything. Gogoi further said that the announcement of compensation, though small, by the Nagaland government was justified. He said that it demonstrates the Nagaland government’s admittance of the actions of its police personnel. He also reiterated the earlier stand of the AASU to continue with the blockade, the announcement of compensation, notwithstanding. “Our demand of bringing to book the erring police personnel still stands”, Gogoi asserted.
