Admission Opens a Can of Worms

While this version was widely contested by the local people who claimed that Sanjit was murdered in a cold-blooded manner, a set of sequential photographs depicting Manipur police commandos overpowering an unarmed Sanjit, taking him inside a shuttered-down chemist shop and then coming out with his bullet-ridden dead body, published in the Tehelka magazine, left no doubts about the nature of the killing. While this version was widely contested by the local people who claimed that Sanjit was murdered in a cold-blooded manner, a set of sequential photographs depicting Manipur police commandos overpowering an unarmed Sanjit, taking him inside a shuttered-down chemist shop and then coming out with his bullet-ridden dead body, published in the Tehelka magazine, left no doubts about the nature of the killing. [...]he shows no remorse and merely takes shelter by claiming he was acting under order of his officer. Despite a case pending in the high court and the CBI inquiry, the attitude of the government was, however, reflective of an opinion shared by the then Chief Secretary of Manipur D S Punia to a delegation of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations on 16 December 2009.