Shillong, Dec 7: The SP Rajkhowa Inquiry Commission ‘wrap-up’ its inquiry of the 2009 sensational Shillong district jailbreak by taking notes of all the arguments and accounts of witnesses and is likely to give its judgmentsby January 2013.
In its last sitting Friday the commission heard the arguments submitted by the government counsel additional advocate general Dr BP Todi, who stepped in during the last few hearing as senior Supreme Court lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi from Delhi could not attend the hearings of the inquiry commission.
With almost three years of probing, the Shillong jailbreak of May 31, 2009 has turned out to be the costliest and the most time consuming judicial inquiry as more than Rs 1 crore has been spent on the commission.
SCAMOD leader Agnes Kharshiing said, “When we have advocate generals why do we need to bring lawyers from outside.”
The inquiry commission was set up to unearth the truth that led to the sensational jailbreak and alleged fake encounter of Fullmoon Dhar, the ring leader of the jailbreak who was shot dead in Jaintia Hills by the police a day after the he and other six other under trial prisoners (UTPs) fled from the Shillong district jail.
Justice (retd) D Biswas was first appointed by the Meghalaya government to conduct the inquiry but he could not complete the task. Later the Meghalaya government on August 20, 2010 appointed the SP Rajkhowa Commission of Inquiry.
As per the order, the judgment of the inquiry commission would now be delivered on January 11.-By Our Reporter
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