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Allegations Against The Chief
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BY: LIVELAW RESEARCH TEAM
MAY 29, 2017 8:32 PM

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The case, Irom Chitra Devi v Union of India, made the Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench
of Justices A.K.Sikri and Deepak Gupta, express its anguish at the plight of the family in
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Meetai was awarded a ve-year jail term under Section 304 of Indian Penal Code –
culpable homicide not amounting to murder – for ring at Roger, son of Irom Chitra
Devi, on March 20, 2011, and killing him, in a road rage incident. Roger was shot at after
he refused to allow Meetai to overtake him in his SUV which had infuriated the latter.

The punishment prescribed under Section 304 IPC is imprisonment for life, or
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall
also be liable to ne, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of
causing death, or of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death; or with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, or with
ne, or with both, if the act is done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause death,
but without any intention to cause death, or to cause such bodily injury as is likely to
cause death.

Apparently, Meetai was convicted and sentenced under Section 304-II of the IPC, which
assumes that he did not have the intention to kill Roger.

Irom Chitra Devi’s advocate Kamini Jaiswal told the bench that the family could not get
a lawyer in Manipur High Court to le an appeal against the inadequate punishment
awarded to Meetai, because of the atmosphere of fear and intimidation, which is likely
to follow it, because he happens to be the Chief Minister’s son. As a result, Chandigarh-
based lawyer, Utsav Bains led an appeal in the High Court on behalf of Chitra Devi. The
State, despite being the Prosecution, did not le an appeal in the case.

On Monday, Chitra Devi complained to the Supreme Court that both she and Bains had
received threats for ling the appeal. Therefore, her family sought directions “to provide
security for the safety of the life and liberty of petitioners and their family members
against any kind of threat and victimisation for their peaceful stay throughout India”.
The petition in the Supreme Court also sought an independent probe by a central
agency on the ground that the state police was working at the behest of the convict.
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On Monday, the bench asked the Additional Solicitor General, Maninder Singh to seek
instructions about providing security by central forces to the parents as they are now
residing in Delhi. When Manipur Government informed the bench that it does not have
any problem in providing security to the parents of Roger, the bench asked whether
anyone would make the kind of allegations which the petitioner has made, against the
Chief Minister, without any reason.

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Topics: Chief Minister N.Biren Singh | Irom Chitra Devi v Union of India | Justice A.K. Sikri | Justice Deepak Gupta
| section 304 IPC | Supreme Court of India

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