Judicial commission summons Tehelka journalists

Imphal, Nov 27 : The one-man judicial commission headed by Justice (retd) P G Agarwal, probing the July 23 incident in which Manipur police commandos gunned down a youth in an alleged encounter, has summoned two journalists of a New Delhi-based news magazine.

The commission in its sitting here yesterday issued summons to the executive editor of Tehelka magazine, Soma Choudhuri, and the news magazine's Guwahati correspondent, Teresa Rehaman to appear before it and give their versions on the incident, sources said.

Although Manipur government had earlier said that a 27-year-old youth, identified as Chungkham Sanjit, was killed in an encounter with police commandos at busy Khwairamband market complex here on July 23, the photographs published in the news magazine showed that the victim was killed in a cold-blooded manner, a social organisation Apunba Lup (AL) has said.