A Manipur court has acquitted all nine police personnel accused in an alleged fake encounter in 2009 due to lack of evidence.
The incident on BT Road in the State’s capital Imphal had claimed the lives of a pregnant woman, Rabina Devi, and an alleged former extremist, Ch Sanjit Meitei. Five others were injured.
The police had alleged Sanjit fired at its commandos while trying to escape a routine frisking operation on the busy street. When photographs of the incident appeared in a magazine, his mother Ch Taratombi lodged a First Information Report alleging that the police killed Sanjit in a fake encounter.
