Manipur High Court
Soram Tikendrajit; & Anr vs Union Of India; & Ors on 24 July, 2025
Digitally signed by
KABORAMBA KABORAMBAM
M SANDEEP SANDEEP SINGH
Date: 2025.07.28
SINGH 12:07:03 +05'30'
IN THE HIGH COURT OF MANIPUR
AT IMPHAL
PIL No. 18 of 2024
Soram Tikendrajit; & Anr.
Petitioners
Vs.
Union of India; & Ors.
Respondents
Clubbed with
MC (PIL) No. 28 of 2025
BEFORE
HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. KEMPAIAH SOMASHEKAR
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AHANTHEM BIMOL SINGH
(ORDER)
(K. SOMASHEKAR, C.J.)
24.07.2025
Learned senior counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Kh. Tarunkumar;
learned DSGI for the Union of India, Mr. Kh. Samarjit and learned Advocate
General for the State, Mr. Lenin are present before the Court physically.
Officials of the NIA, namely, (1) D. Sharavan, DIGP, NIA (2) Ashish
Kumar, SP, NIA (3) Lokesh Kumar, PP, NIA and (4) Vikas Kumar, DSP, NIA are
also present before the Court physically.
Learned senior counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Kh. Tarunkuamr is
present before the Court physically and submits that the incident took place on
11.11.2024. The same has been revealed in the FIR said to be have been
recorded by the concerned investigating agency. Subsequent to recording of the
FIR, law was set into motion but till today, no specific report has been submitted
for filing of charge sheet against culprits/accused. This status which is submitted
by the learned senior counsel for the petitioner in this matter is taken on record.
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It is further submitted that out of the six persons, three were minor
children and dead bodies of all the six persons have been found floating one after
another on the Barak River. These are all the status which are submitted by the
aforesaid learned senior counsel in this matter and the same is taken on record.
Whereas learned DSGI for the Union of India submits that
investigation has been carried out by the investigating agency and even it is in
the process of completion of the investigation and filing of charge sheet against
the culprits/accused.
The learned DGSI placed before this Court two sets of seal covered
envelopes containing detailed progress report of the proceeding in RC-
15/2024/NIA/IMP. The two seal covered envelopes said to contain the detailed
progress report are taken on record.
However, in a given peculiar facts and circumstances in this matter
and also keeping in view the submission made by the learned DSGI and also the
submission made by learned Advocate General are concerned, it is deemed
appropriate that these seal covered envelopes said to be containing detailed
progressed to be maintained in the safe custody of Registrar General, High Court
of Manipur, until further order.
Accordingly made an observation.
Whereas, the learned DSGI in this matter seeks some time for
submitting the detailed report in terms of charge sheet.
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However, keeping in view the status in this matter, one month’s
time is granted for submitting the detailed report in terms of charge sheet under
Section 173 of Cr.PC and corresponding provision of BNSS Act, 2023.
It is made clear that if there is no progress made, the matter would
be viewed seriously.
Hence, these matters would be listed on 25.08.2025.
Personal appearance of the officials of NIA are dispensed with for
the present.
JUDGE CHIEF JUSTICE
Sandeep
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