On December 30 last year, Meghalaya police defended the filing of an appeal before the division bench of Gauhati High Court against its Shillong bench’s order that had asked them to provide detailed information on the jailbreak under the RTI Act, 2005.
After consulting legal experts, the police came to know that the division bench will not entertain their petition.
The RTI documents were handed over today to Kharshiing who is also the chairperson of Steering Committee against Murder of Democracy.
The documents have many discrepancies. Kharshiing said there was no video recor-ding of the post-mortem of Full Moon Dhar who was the mastermind of the jailbreak.
There were allegations of a fake encounter soon after Full Moon was shot dead. Karshiing said as the police did not carry out a videography of the post-mortem, it amounted to violation of human rights.
According to the documents provided under RTI Act, 2005, there are four exit and four entry wounds in the body of Full Moon. According to the inquest report, there are 11 entry wounds and one exit wound in his body. The post-mortem report says that only two bullets were found in his body. The RTI documents provided to Kharshiing by the police said altogether 178 rounds of ammunition were fired during the search operations to arrest the escapees.
Congress politician Thomas Nongtdu had stated that one Bring Biang of Umkiang village claiming to be his childhood friend had asked him to provide money to Full Moon’s girlfriend Evatiplang Kharkongor and it was used for the jailbreak on May 31 last year.