Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra, CJ.

1. This writ application has been filed praying for fixing responsibility on the officers who were responsible for causing death of the son of the petitioners in the fake encounter and also for payment of compensation.

2. The case of the petitioners is that their last son namely, Kh. Debeshower @ Pishak Singh was a matriculate and had also successfully completed carpentry training programme organized by the Community Polytechnic Society, Imphal sponsored by DRDA. His further case is that the said son(deceased) was once arrested on 16.12.2000 by the security personnel on allegation of being a Member of People's Liberation Army(PLA) and had also been detained under the National Security Act for the period from 4.1.2001 to 27.12.2001. After being released, he was staying at home and was leading a normal life. On 9.3.2004 at about 3.50 A.M. when the petitioner, the deceased, and other family members were sleeping, a group of 17 Assam Rifles entered into the house without any prior information and ransacked the house. The deceased son of the petitioners was taken out of his bed even without allowing him to change his dress. Thereafter, they blindfolded t