ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, Mar 4: Jyoti Kamda, widow of Tsering Wangdi, one of the three killed during the anti-PRC protest here in the state capital today also refused to accept the compensation and job offer announced by the state government and appealed instead for exemplary action against those responsible for her husband’s tragic demise.
“My husband had never done harm to anyone, so why was he killed?” she said amid sobs, while interacting with press persons here at the Press Club.
Wangdi, an orphan, who ran a small shop with his wife in the Niti Vihar area of Itanagar was killed when security forces opened fire to control a mob that had gone out of control over the PRC issue on February 24.
Strongly condemning the security personnel’s brutality towards peaceful protesters voicing their rights, Kamda also alleged that the body of her husband had been handed over by the police in a decomposed state.
“How can I sit in peace knowing that the perpetrators are out there roaming freely while I have to wake up every day without my husband? Someone has to be held accountable for the act and I will never stop fighting until the day I get justice,” she uttered. 
Despite the bandh in full force, after receiving news that her husband was shot she went out looking for him braving the showers of stones hurled by protesters. After inquiring a few, she traced the body at Heema hospital, which was later shifted to RK Mission mortuary.
While recounting the ordeal, Kamda informed that family members were forced to do the rounds of several hospitals by the police on the day of the incident for conducting an autopsy.
She alleged that the next day when the family came back to retrieve the body from RK Mission hospital, it was allegedly shifted overnight to a civil hospital at Lakhimpur, Assam along with Biki Ruja’s body for autopsy.
Kamda added that they followed the police to Lakhimpur and repeatedly approached the magistrate on duty to get the autopsy done immediately so that last rites can be performed as soon as possible.

“We were made to wait more than 36 hours to retrieve the body and every time we spoke to the police, we felt they were trying to hide something from us. And when the body was handed over to us it was already decomposed to some extent,” she recounted.

However, she said that despite undergoing the tragedy, they remain hopeful that the law enforcing agencies would deliver justice.
Terming the incident as an intentional and predetermined act to murder an innocent, father- in-law of the deceased, Tachik Kamda affirmed not to accept any kind of ex-gratia unless the security personnel responsible for Wangdi’s death is brought to justice.
“Even such shooting order is not issued upon stone pelters in Jammu and Kashmir. And this unfortunate incident happened over the PRC issue which is an absolute violation of human rights,” he slammed.
He resented the fact that after the incident no one from the government  came to console the family which is equally hurting.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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