Imphal, February 23, 2010: Seven personnel of the Imphal West police commandos including SI, Punshiba who is under suspension from service today appeared before the One-Man Commission of Inquiry looking into the July 23 firing incident and gave their statement with regard to the incident.

After hearing the statements, the commission ordered them to submit their statement with regard to the incident in the form of affidavits on or before March 17. The hearing of the commission presided over by justice (retired) PG Agarawal was conducted at the conference hall of the Imphal Hotel, North AOC today.

The commission asked the seven personnel to collect required information for preparing their affidavits on February 25 and submit their affidavits on or before February 17. The commission further asked additional SP, Imphal west AK Jhaljit, OC of Imphal west police commandos, Th Krishnatombi and inspector Inaocha of Bazar unit of Imphal West police commandos to submit a detail report on the deployment of commando personnel on that day, July 23 which Ch Sanjit and Th Rabina on or before March 17. The commission also informed that following the directive of the commission, Tahelka authority has sent photographs appeared in the magazine and the same will be sent to the forensic science laboratory at Pangei for verifying the same.

The presiding officer, PG Agarawal also ordered to send the photographs to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, New Delhi.

The hearing of the commission also postponed till March 17. Failure on the part of the injure Mangal Golmei of the incident, the commission further ordered to summon if once again.

The commission also took statement of the doctors conducting postmortem to the two victims of the incident as well as doctors who attended injured people in the incident.

Dr Th Bijoy who conducted postmortem on the dead body of Th Rabina, in his statement, suggested that she died of laceration of brain resulting from rifled firearm injury to the head which was fired upon from a distant range and homicidal in nature.

The range of fire is more than two to three feet away from the victim as there was no blackening, charring and tattooing around the entrance wound.

The victim was in erect position at the time of receiving the wound.

The injury in all probability cannot have been self inflicted, the doctor said giving his opinion that the injury was sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature.

Dr Supriya Keisham who conducted postmortem to the dead body of Ch Sanjit said that the entry wounds to the dead body suggested that the shots were fired from a distance more than two to three feet.

The exact distance cannot be said as it depends upon the nature of firearm, she said adding the projectiles found in the body of the deceased were recovered and later handed over to the inquiring police officer.

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