Court indicts Army in missing man’s case

KOHIMA, August 13: The Kohima bench of Gauhati high court has indicted the Army for disappearance of a person from its custody in Nagaland and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct further inquiry to trace him.

A two-member bench of the court in its recent order also directed Government of India to pay Rs two lakh compensation to the missing person’s wife and the money should be deposited at the court’s registrar office within three months from the date of the receipt of the order.

A bench, comprising justices W A Shishak and H K Sema held the commanding officer of a Gorkha Rifles unit in Nagaland responsible for the disappearance of 70-year-old Viyikhu Sema of Zutovi village in April, 1994, from the custody of the security forces.

The Central Bureau of Investigation , which failed to come to any definite conclusion about the disappearance, was directed to conduct a further probe.