India: EEVFAM seeks intervention of DGP, demands legal action
Event- Country
- India
- Event Description
The Extrajudicial Execution Victims Families Association, Manipur (EEVFAM) has informed that the life and security of EEVFAM coordinator of Jiribam district, Yengkhom Ibomcha Singh is under threat from inspector, Manipur police, S. Ibotombi and appealed for urgent intervention of the director general of police. In a statement addressed to the DGP, the organisation sought immediate necessary action in connection to the alleged threat and intimidation by inspector, S. Ibotombi for posting court order of Chief Judicial Magistrate (Imphal West) where his name is mentioned as one of the accused in the CBI charge sheet pertaining to EEVFAM v/s Union of India case, writ petition criminal no. 129 of 2012 of the Supreme Court of India. Ibomcha, a resident of Jiribam IB Leikai under Jiribam police station, Jiribam district was actively involved in data collection and coordination of families of the victims of fake encounters in Jiribam, it said. One day, Ibomcha received a court order of the CJM (Impha West) from a Whatsapp group pertaining to the charge sheet filed by the CBI, it informed. As a coordinator of EEFVAM, he disseminated the document to various Whatsapp groups, it informed. In the last week of September when Ibomcha was busy for organising Lamyanba Irabot celebration to be held at Hojai Langka, Assam where ministers,MLAs and leaders of civil voluntary organisations from Manipur were to attend, he received several phone calls from Jiribam Police Station and told him that he should visit the police station, the statement further informed. When he enquired about the reason, the police insisted him the he should visit the police station without any delay, it said. Soon after Ibomcha's arrival at his home, he got another call from Jiribam Police Station, thereafter, Ibomcha visited Jiribam Police Station, it continued while adding the officer on duty inquired about the court order that he had shared on social media. The police officer on duty insisted Ibomcha to make an apology for sharing the said court order to which Ibomcha replied it was not he who shared the court order first, it informed. After some time, one of the police personnel of Jiribam Police passed a mobile phone and inspector Ibotombi, who was on the line, told Ibomcha that the investigation conducted by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is illegal and he had received gallantry award, the statement informed. The inspector further told Ibomcha that some member of Kalinagar Youth Club have already sought his apology for sharing the said court order, and insisted that Ibomcha should also make an apology for sharing the said document otherwise Ibomcha would face dire consequences, it stated. The statement sought the urgent intervention of DGP by taking necessary legal action against inspector Ibotombi to that Ibomcha can carry out his legitimate human rights work without intimidation and fear, it added
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- NGO staff
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Summary for Publications
Since September, Yengkhom Ibomcha Singh, co-ordinator of Extrajudicial Execution Victims Families Association, has been harassed by authourities.