The Nagaland police have issued lookout notice against 12 key suspects of the mob that broke into the Dimapur Central Jail on March 5 and lynched a rape accused even as the police claimed that some of the key leaders of the mob had already gone underground.
The police on Wednesday night released the photographs of 12 suspects for their ‘direct involvement’ in the mob that took law and order in its hands and killed the rape accused, who hailed from Assam’s Karimganj district. The police further said that the photographs of the suspect were based on concrete and credible evidence which is in possession of Dimapur police.
“More such photographs would be released in the days to come on the basis of available evidences against each person,” said Dimapur Superintendent of Police l lotha.
“We have requested the identified leaders, whose photographs have been released, to come and present themselves before their respective police stations. We are also requesting the parents, wards and the civic bodies of each locality to produce these individuals in the respective police stations,” he said while warning that the police would detain them as per the law, if they do not act upon accordingly.
Nagaland CM TR Zeliang met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday in the union capital and apprised him of the situation in Nagaland. Zeliang also informed the Home Minister about the steps taken by the State so far to ensure peace in the town.
It may be mentioned here that the Nagaland Government had suspended three top officials-the DC, the SP and the Jail Superintendent over the lynching incident and instituted a judicial probe over the incident. The Nagaland Government, who had already instituted a SIT to probe the incident and 48 people have so far been arrested by the State police for their involvement in the crime.
Meanwhile, the Nagaland Government has refuted the reports that the State in its report submitted to the MHA stated that there was no rape. A statement issued to the media by Nagaland Chief Secretary Pankanj Kumar late Wednesday night clarified that the State’s report made no such mention.