Imphal, Jan 7 : The residents of Wangjing in Thoubal district today submitted a memorandum to chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, demanding ex gratia and a government job to the family of Khangembam Priyokumar Singh.
A team of police and the army gunned down Priyokumar and his friend Sorokhaibam Nehru at Ishok in Bishnupur district on December 4 evening.
The police said the two were killed in an encounter and claimed to have recovered a pistol and a hand grenade from them.
The families of both the victims claimed that the two, who were contractors, were innocent and allegedly killed in custody.
While Priyokumar was from Wangjing, Nehru was a resident of Charangpat in the same district.
The residents of Wangjing today formed a joint action committee and came to Imphal to meet the chief minister.
As Ibobi Singh is in Delhi, the action committee left a memorandum addressed to the chief minister with local MLA M. Hemanta Singh, who is staying at the Babupara VIP colony here.
The MLA assured the committee that he would hand over the memorandum to the chief minister when he returned from Delhi.
The committee demanded ex gratia for the next of kin and a government job for Pushpa, the widow of Priyokumar and mother of a minor boy.
“Priyokumar left on December 4 morning with Nehru to visit Leishangthem. We suspected that they were arrested on their way to Leishangthem in Thoubal district and killed after torture. His body bore marks of torture,” the victim’s elder sister, Sunibala Devi, said.
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