Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday ordered CID probe into the killing of a dacoit in a shoot-out by the police in Udalguri district. The deceased’s kin claimed of mistaken identity with the family of one other individual.
The CM directed Director General of Police G P Singh to provoke a CID inquiry into the killing. The inquiry will ”confirm factual particulars” of the Udalguri incident involving the demise of the dacoit, harm of two police personnel and restoration of arms, a press release from the chief minister’s workplace stated.
A magisterial inquiry has already been initiated into the incident which passed off on Thursday. Sarma has requested the DGP to make sure completion of the CID inquiry inside two weeks.
Assam Police stated on Sunday that it acquired a request for exhumation of the physique of the person killed within the shoot-out from the family of one other one that was allegedly caught within the firing between the 2 sides on Thursday and has been lacking since then.
The request was forwarded to the native Justice of the Peace. The lifeless was recognized as Kenaram Basumtary of Natun Panbari Village of Udalguri by his mom.
The physique was handed over to the family who buried it on Friday night, the police stated.
Basumatary was a former NDFB militant who was wished in a number of instances of armed robberies in Assam in addition to neighbouring Meghalaya and had been arrested with arms on earlier events, the police claimed.
Subsequently, the family of one other individual referred to as Dimbeshwar Muchahary from Jengrenpara village of neighbouring Baksa district got here to the workplace of Udalguri superintendent of police on Saturday night and claimed the physique.
Police stated Muchahary alias Gobla can be a historical past sheeter and had been arrested with arms and each he and Basumtary are proven as absconders in the identical case.
Muchahary’s family had sought the for exhumation of the physique, which can be finished on the Justice of the Peace’s order, the assertion by the CMO stated.
DNA profiling could also be finished to confirm the declare on the identity of the deceased on the receipt of a court docket order, it added.
Sub-inspector Hira Jyoti Pegu and constable Sukumar Barman have been injured within the shootout, the police stated.
(With PTI enter)
