Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 06 2010:
Wife of RK Meghen, Ibemnungshi today drew the attention of Prime Minister, Dr Manmohon Singh requesting him to direct the authorities concerned to produce her husband who has been missing since reportedly arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She drew the attention of the Prime Minister stating that since both Indian as well as Bangladeshi authorities are neither denying nor confirming the arrest of my husband till date even though a flurry of news have emerged in connection with the arrest of her husband in the last few days since the BBC first filed a report.
"The situation has come to such an impasse where Indian as well as the Bangladeshi authorities are neither denying nor confirming the arrest of my husband till date," Ibemnungshi has written to the PM.
She is ashamed of India claiming itself as the largest democratic country in the world when it cannot even furnish the details regarding the whereabouts , and the mental and physical status of her husband in accordance with law, the representation stated.
In the submission, she also recalled that the media reported the arrest of her husband, chairman of the proscribed UNLF, from Lamatia area of Dhaka by a combined team of Indian intelligence agency RAW and their Bangladeshi counterparts on September 29 .
On learning about his arrest, she had submitted various representations to different forums and authorities for disclosing the status and whereabouts of her husband but the matter is yet to yield any positive results till date, she added.
She had submitted a representation to the secretary of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs with a same copy forwarded to the state DGP on October 14 and had also submitted similar representation to the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India.
With no positive response from any side, she submitted another representation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva praying for his intervention and for giving directions to the Indian and Bangladeshi governments to disclose the actual facts and incidents of the arrest of her husband, his whereabouts, position, location, condition, etc.
In her submission, it was also mentioned that if her husband has indeed been arrested and handed over to Indian authorities, such course of action taken by the concerned authorities by remaining silent without following the due process of law is in gross violation and transgression of the basic right and liberty, as guaranteed to both its citizens as well as non-citizens, under Article 21 of the Constitution of India in particular, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in general.