SC notice to Centre, Manipur in road rage case involving CM’s son

Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, May 22

The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and the Manipur Government to a protection plea by the parents of a youth killed in a road rage incident in 2011 by Ajay Meetai, the son of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.

The parents pleaded that they feared for their safety.

A vacation Bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Navin Sinha asked the Union home secretary and the chief secretary of Manipur to respond by May 29, the next date of hearing, to the plea by Irom Chitra Devi, mother of Irom Roger.

Meetai has been sentenced to five years in jail under Section 304 (culpabale homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC for firing at Roger in a road rage incident on March 20, 2011, as the victim did not allow the accused to overtake.

Women rights activist Binalakshmi Nepram has also sought protection from Manipur CM alleging that he ordered police raids, disconnected electricity connection to the victim’s house and illegally detained the victim’s brother to ensure a compromise.

The parents also pleaded that no lawyer was willing to appear on their behalf in the high court which was hearing the appeal against the conviction.