Imphal, January 30 2010: Four professors of the Forensic Department of the RIMS Hospital Imphal have been summoned to appear in the court on February 4 next by the District and Session Judge, Manipur East to give their statements on the Malom firing incident 10 year back in November, 2000 that claimed lives of 10 civilians in AR firing.

Mention may be made that as per directive of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench, the District and Session Judge, Manipur East is investigating into the facts and circumstances leading to the firing incidents.

Recently on January 7, a team of the court led by Th Surbala had conducted spot inquiry at Malom.

The professors who summoned by the court were who conducted postmortems to the lifeless bodies of the deceased victims of the incident.

They were Dr Fimate, director of RIMS, Dr Momochand (currently serving at a hospital in Pondicherry), Dr Nabachandra (present head of department of forensic department, RIMS) and Dr Th Bijoy.

On November 2, 2000, troops of 8 Assam Rifles fired indiscriminately towards a group of civilians at the bus waiting shed at Malom along the Tidim road killing 10 civilians apart from inflicting injuries to several others.

Following a directive of the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench in 2004 and 2005, the District and Session Judge has been conducting an enquiry into the incident.

The spot enquiry was conducted on January 7 last by Th Surbala, District and Session Judge along with official team comprising of the investigating officer, CID inspector and the parties of the petitioners and the respondents.

This Malom incident is also very significant for the reason that Irom Sharmila Chanu was prompted to take the drastic step of fasting till death by the incident.

Th Surbala along with the team, Rameshwor, Investigating Officer and the CID inspector (SB) investigated the firing site (bus stand) at Malom area and the firing that took place in the area where the incident took place.

It is worth mentioning that the Malom massacre occurred on November 2, 2000 which had killed atleast 10 civilians including students and women in the Assam Rifles firing.

The deceased persons were L Sana Devi (60), G Bap Sharma (50), O Sanayaima (50), K Bijoy (35) A Raghumani (34), S Robinson Singh (27), Ksh Inaocha (23), T Shantikumar (19), S Prakash Singh (18), S Chandramani (17) .

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