Guwahati, March 25: Former judge of Gauhati High Court Justice B.D. Agarwal will head the one-man inquiry commission, instituted by the Meghalaya government, to probe the police firing at Resubelpara in North Garo Hills district in which three civilians were injured.

According to a source, chief minister Mukul Sangma had written to Justice Agarwal, informing him about the government's decision to appoint him as head of the inquiry commission.

A day after the incident, Sangma had announced in the Assembly his government's decision to constitute a judicial inquiry.

Former chief minister S.C. Marak, a local MLA, had demanded a judicial inquiry and adequate compensation for the victims of the police firing.

The incident took place around 10.30pm on March 6 when the police fired at a vehicle suspecting the occupants to be armed militants as it did not stop at a police checkpoint in the Kaldang area of the district.

In the firing, three persons, who were in the vehicle, suffered bullet wounds and were taken to the nearest community health centre. Later, they were shifted to a private hospital in Guwahati for treatment.

Following the firing, a mob attacked and set fire to the Resubelpara police station and torched seven police vehicles.

Civil organisations, under the banner of the Solidarity Forum, have since been demanding transfer of North Garo Hills superintendent of police Dalton Marak, termination of service of police personnel deployed at the checkpost and compensation for the victims.

Three days after the incident, two policemen, who allegedly shot at the civilians were suspended. However, the civil organisations, particularly from North Garo Hills, are in no mood to relent and continue to press for their demands.

On Thursday, six persons were detained by the police in Garo hills for disrupting public order during the "non-cooperation movement" of the Solidarity Forum.

The source said that terms of reference of the judicial probe will be to ascertain the circumstances leading to the police firing and determine whether the police action was justified.

"The venue of the inquiry will be Resubelpara and it will have to be completed within two months," the source said.