Imphal, Oct. 18: The judicial commission probing the killing and alleged rape of Thangjam Manorama in Assam Rifles? custody today completed its in-camera hearings and is expected to submit its report soon.
Sources in the C. Upendra Commission, constituted in the wake of the uproar over the custody death, said the report would be submitted to the government within the stipulated period.
The panel?s term was recently extended till November 11.
The commission examined 11 personnel of the 17th Assam Rifles at Imphal?s Central Jail. The process began on August 30. The hearings were conducted in-camera in accordance with a directive from Gauhati High Court.
The court also ordered that the proceedings be kept a secret until the submission of the report.
The commission will record the observations of a ballistics expert from the Manipur Forensic Science Laboratory at Pangei, in Imphal East, on Wednesday.
Assam Rifles counsel T. Prasad today requested the commission to summon four persons for another hearing. They are Manorama?s younger brother, Thangjam Dolendro, Irilbung police station in-charge Gunindro Singh, subdivisional officer Munindro Singh and a police constable named Sarat Singh.
The commission will decide tomorrow whether to summon the quartet or not.
The panel today interrogated the owner of a public call office located near Manorama?s house.
In another development, the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Imphal, issued a notice to the commandant of the 17th Assam Rifles to appear before it personally or send a counsel.
The parallel army court of inquiry detected ?lapses? on the part of the team that arrested and killed Manorama on July 11, but the veracity of the allegation that she was raped before being shot has not been proved.
The army court of inquiry subjected 33 personnel involved in the operation to DNA tests after traces of semen were found on a garment Manorama was wearing at the time of her death.