Shillong, Oct 19: Three key witnesses have been summoned by Justice SP Rajkhowa Commission Friday in the inquiry of the killing of Fullmoon Dhar, who had masterminded the Shillong jailbreak in May 31, 2009.
The late Fullmoon had masterminded the jail break and escaped along with seven other inmates but he killed in an alleged fake police encounter near Um-Pawai forest in Jainitia Hills district about 40 kms from here on June 2, 2009.
The three witnessed who have been summoned are two senior scientific officers – Manoaranjan Talulkdar and Madhu Sharma of the Ballistic Division of directorate of forensic science, Assam and sub inspector RA Sangma who held the first inquest of Fullmoon body.
“All the three witnesses have been asked to appear before the Commission for examination as Commission’s witnesses,” Rajkhowa said after the hearing was held at the state secretariat Friday .
The three witnesses will appear before the Commission’s next sitting on November 8 and 9 here in Meghalaya.
The Meghalaya government has given an extension of another three months for the panel to complete the probe into the Shillong jailbreak, including an alleged politician-criminal nexus, and submit its findings to the government by January 10, 2013.
Several social groups under the banner Steering Committee Against Murder of Democracy (SCAMoD) had pressurised the government to probe the incident.
In March 2010, two under trial prisoners Synsharlang Thongni and Khrawborlang Marbaniang – who along with Fullmoon had escaped- had appeared before the Biswas Commission, claimed that Fullmoon, was in touch with a “Congress Lok Sabha candidate” before he escaped from prison.
A Congress district council member from Jaintia Hills, Thomas Nongtdu, is also alleged to have financed the jailbreak.- By Our Reporter
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