[Reader-list] Rs. 4-lakh solatium for fake encounter

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Rs. 4-lakh solatium for fake encounter

Iboyaima Laithangbam

IMPHAL: Ruling that the killing of a young man in a Manipur village by
Assam Rifles in 2006 was a fake encounter, the Gauhati High Court has
ordered the Union government to pay his wife a solatium of Rs. 4 lakh.

In her writ petition, Sagolshem Latani (20) said the police had
arrested Sagolshem Vikram in 2004 on the charge that he was a militant
of the outlawed People's Liberation Army. He was detained under the
National Security Act. After his release, he married her and was eking
out a living as a daily wage earner at Nongbrang village in Thoubal
district. The petitioner said that on the night of October 3, 2006,
troopers of 34 Assam Rifles raided their house and whisked away Vikram
(22) though no gun or incriminating material was found. Hardly 50
metres from the house the troopers gunned him down.

The official version was that he was killed in an encounter and that
one pistol was recovered from him.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/17/stories/2010071756321300.htm