NHRC Seeks Report on ‘Unnecessary’ Firing in Ganakpara Incident

A Correspondent

TANGLA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Udalguri and Deputy Commissioner of Udalguri regarding the ‘unnecessary’ firing by security forces at Ganakpara village near Kalaigaon in Udalguri district on July 6.

The rights panel passed this order while hearing a petition filed by NHRC campaigner Sailen Kumar Sarma. The SP and DC office has been directed to file the report within four weeks.

The petitioner alleged that the family of school teacher Jadav Sahariah was performing some rituals at their residence in Ganakpara village near Kalaigaon in Udalguri when locals, apprehending that the family will sacrifice a child, created hullabaloo, following which police forces intervened and a high voltage drama ensued wherein police forces, after failing to pacify the unruly family members, opened indiscriminate firing with automatic assault rifles.

Pulakesh Sahariah succumbed to bullet injuries at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) while a 15-year old teenager and father of Pulakesh, Jadav Sahariah (58) sustained bullet injuries. The eye-witnesses alleged that the unruly family members attempted to attack the police, fire fighting personnel and journalists with machete and axe and police forces, in pursuance of the order of an executive magistrate, opened firing.

The complainant has sought exemplary punishment of the offenders and payment of adequate compensation to the victim family. Pertinently, the Deputy Commissioner of Udalguri had also conducted a magisterial inquiry into the incident by the Subdivisional Officer (Civil), Bhergaon.

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