Govt to submit AGP’s ‘secret killings’ report

“The report is about a series of killings of close relatives of several ULFA leaders carried out in a systematic and similar fashion,” the Chief Minister said.

He also indicated that some top functionaries of the then government had been implicated in the report which would be placed in the Assembly during its five-day session that begins here on November 12.

“Such killings could not have taken place without the connivance of the then government and the ‘top man’ in the then government,” the CM said. For Gogoi and the Congress, the report could not have come at an ideal time as state will soon go for panchayat polls, notifications for which is likely to be issued on November 14.

The “secret killings,” allegedly committed during the later part of Mahanta’s term as Chief Minister (1996-2001), was a major issue during the 2001 assembly elections in which Congress party inflicted a crushing defeat on the AGP. While the first Commission headed by former Gauhati High Court judge Meera Sharma was dismissed after she expressed her inability to carry out the inquiries, the report of the second Commission headed by retired Justice JN Sharma was summarily dismissed by the Congress government in 2005 after the Chief Minister termed it as “inconclusive”.

The Justice KN Saikia Commission, appointed in August 2005, however, completed the probe within two years and submitted its report in four parts, the last being in August this year.