Supreme Court lawyer, Utsav Singh Bains has made claims of being threatened by Manipur militants for legally assisting the family of Irom Roger, who was murdered allegedly by the son of Manipur CM N Biren Singh. Bains wrote a letter to the Union Home Secretary to provide him with adequate security after the threat call.
It is to be noted that, the CM’s son Nongthombam Ajay convicted of the murder of Irom Roger had been sentenced to only 5 years imprisonment in January. The victim’s family has decided to file an appeal in the court on the quantum of sentence allocated to Ajay, which is being advocated by Bains.
Regarding the threat claims made by the lawyer, Chief Minister N Biren Singh responded to Newsd. Clarifying the allegations he tweeted that the Superintendent of CID has no information of any such call.
The Minister tweeted:
@GetNewsd Sp CID doesn’t get anything of such call from the advocate concerned, pls confirm first and tweet.
— N Biren Singh (@NBirenSingh) May 11, 2017
Clarifying further, he tweeted:
@GetNewsd My son was handed over to CBI by me , already in jail ,no need help . Threaten case is serous, will be handed over to NIA for investigation.
— N Biren Singh (@NBirenSingh) May 11, 2017
The Chief Minister has also tweeted questioning the threat claims, “Threatening calls were on 22nd March, but wrote a letter to the home only on 6th May, after a month, why take so long?”
Notably, he deleted this tweet and the link is no longer be found. Here is a screenshot of the tweet:
