Secret killing probe commission submits partial report

Guwahati, Sep 8 (UNI) The one-man commission probing the 'secret killings' in Asom in the last decade today submitted the first part of its long awaited report to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

Justice (retd) K N Saikia, who headed the Commission, submitted the partial report to Mr Gogoi at his office chambers in a sealed envelope.

The Chief Minister's office informed that the contents would be made known only after careful study of the same by the Chief Minister and other top government officials.

Names of many prominent politicians and police and civil officials were likely to figure in the report. The secret killings controversy had rocked the state during the second term of AGP Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. The government was accused of hiring killers to wipe out entire families of top ULFA leaders.

Mr Mahanta was also recently questioned by the Commission regarding his role in the controversy. In fact, Mr Mahanta, seven years after these incidents, is yet to come out clean from that stigma which cost him the Chief Ministership and then even the party leadership of the AGP. Mr Mahanta is now the president of a splinter group of the AGP with just one MLA.

The term of the Commission had been extended twice but sources involved in the enquiry process had alleged non-cooperation from the administration. The first part report should include the two famous secret killings involving the families of the ULFA chairman Aurobindo Rajkhowa and publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary.

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