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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday sought the investigation status report from NIA which was tasked to investigate alleged extra-judicial killings of 10 Kuki-Zo tribal youth in Nov last year, a year and half after ethnic strife engulfed the state, allegedly by CRPF in Jiribam district.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and A S Chandurkar refused to act on the plea for five Kuki-Zo community members seeking a court monitored SIT to inquire into the more than one year incident saying already one of the best agencies in NIA is seized of the investigation.However, the bench agreed with the petitioner and sought a probe status report from NIA regarding the progress made in the investigation so far. The petitioners said they cannot approach Manipur HC “because they belong to the minority community who are at loggerheads with the majority community, and as such, the HC being in Imphal city, they are not in a position to go there physically because of constant threats to life and property”.According to the petitioners, the incident took place when the ten men belonging to Hmar tribe of Kuki-Zo community, claiming to be relief volunteers from Churachandpur, went inside CRPF premises at Borobekra police station in Jiribam district for talks regarding security of villages in the area as a day before their villages were attacked. “It is learnt that as the ten were leaving from the compound, a Manipur police commando in the compound opened fire on them… It was rumoured that in the commotion, a CRPF soldier opened fire from LMG which killed several of those, 10 victims.”
