Shillong
Times: Shillong: Monday, 16 November 2015.
An RTI reply
accessed by CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing on the mysterious death of MLP 2nd
Battalion personnel Joseph Lalthlanmua Thlau inside the battalion barrack at DC
Office Complex, Ampati, hours before counting of votes for the GHADC polls on
October 15, has revealed that the same weapon (Sten Gun Mark II with butt
number 128) was issued to Naik Herwith N Marak and LNK Joseph Lalthiamuana
Thlau respectively on February 28 this year.
However, the
reply to the RTI query said that while both the personnel were in Garobadha,
the weapon may have got inter changed unknowingly.
The RTI report
further said that Herwith N Marak deposited
the weapon (Sten Gun Mark II butt number 128) issued to Joseph
Lalthiamuana Thlau, on October 8 at the 2nd MLP battalion armory in order to
exchange with SLR.
The reply to
RTI query also mentions that the duty time of Joseph was till 5 am of October
15, but he went to the battalion barrack at DC office complex where he was
found dead with bullet injuries at around 3 am. Questions are doing the rounds
as to why he had to go to the battalion barrack at 3 am without a replacement
if his duty time was till 5 am.
The public
information officer, however, has not provided copies of the post mortem report
and the CCTV footages of the strong room which the police personnel was
guarding to the RTI applicant by stating that the inquiry was under progress.
Mystery still
surrounds the death of the police personnel as one police report said he was
found dead at 3:20 am on October 15 while guarding the strong room of the EVMs
at Ampati, while the Meghalaya Police website claimed that Joseph had committed
suicide inside the battalion barrack at DC Office Complex, Ampati.
Tura DSP M.
Kundu has been entrusted with the task of probing the matter.
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