Nagaland
WSH demands ex-gratia for murdered employee at ISBT Purana Bazaar
DIMAPUR — The Western Sumi Hoho demanded an ex-gratia from the state government on behalf of late Hozheto Yeptho’s family and relatives.
In a press note, the hoho stated that Yeptho, who was murdered on the line of duty in the early morning of August 24 at the ISBT complex, Purana Bazaar, Dimapur, deserves to be honoured posthumously and described him as ‘a very sincere, dedicated, and diligent government employee who worked wholeheartedly and sacrificed even his life for the service’.
The WSH said that Yeptho died bravely while trying to protect the goods confiscated by the Customs department and kept in the trucks that were parked inside the ISBT complex.
Stating that his children have lost a loving father who earned and fed them, the WSH has appealed to the state government as well as the department involved to look into the issue at the earliest and understand the plight of the deceased’s wife and children, and that such great sacrifice should not go unnoticed, unrewarded, or in vain.
He deserves to be honoured in a befitting manner and nothing less, it read. The WSH also appealed that since Yeptho had still more years to go in the service and gave his life on the line of duty, a family member be put in his stead on compassionate grounds, and also appealed to everyone not to take the incident on tribal lines but as an unfortunate happening.
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