Shillong, Mar 1 : The death toll in Meghalaya has risen to three with another person
was killed on Sunday at Pyrkan village in Meghalaya.
Curfew is still clamped in areas under Sadar police station, Lumdiengjri police station
and the entire area under Cantonment Beat house.
Mobile internet services remained suspended from Friday night in six districts (East,
West Jaintia Hills, East, West, South West Khasi hills and Ri-Bhoi districts) and the
suspension would stay until further orders.
State’s Director General of Police R Chandranathan warned that any person(s) indulging
in activities that may create breakdown of law and order, communal disharmony, incite or
instigate conflict in the state shall be sternly dealt with as per legal provisions of the statute
of the land.
A police official said a 37-year-old man, identified as Uphas Uddin was killed when three unidentified miscreants attacked him at his residence at Pyrkan village under Shella police
station of East Khasi Hills district.
“Uphas, who was grievously injured in the armed miscreants attack, was rushed Khamati
CHC, where the doctor declared him brought dead,” the police official said.
In a separate incident, unknown persons attacked Rajua Karim, an employee of government-owned Meghalaya Basin Development Agency on Saturday at Mawthabah
village in Mawsyram.
Karim, a resident of Phulbari in West Garo Hills, has been admitted to NEGRIHMS in
Shillong in a critical condition this morning.
In Shillong, miscreants hurled a petrol bomb on Saturday night at the residential
compound of one Lakshmi Bareh at Pynthorbah, Block – 4.
Police said no one was injured and no property damaged in the incident.
In Ri-bhoi district, some non-tribal carpenters who were staying at Umtrew ran away from
their homes last night into the forest when they heard some local youths proceeding to the
area in two buses.
Police said they have, however, now returned to their homes.
Earlier two people, including a member of the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), were killed
and several others were injured after clashes broke out between student activists and
non-tribals on Friday at Ichamati village.
Friday’s bloody clashes broke out following a meeting against the Citizenship (Amendment)
Act (CAA) and to demand Inner Line Permit (ILP) in Meghalaya.
The leaders of the KSU and Federation of Khasi-Jaintia and Garo People had organized an anti-CAA public meeting in Ichamati village.
The government has ordered for a magisterial inquiry has been instituted into the incident
to ascertain the fact that led to the clash.
Chandranathan has appealed to all citizens, Social Organisations, Religious Organisations,
Dorbar Shnongs, Seng Kynthei, Seng Samla and all peace loving people from all spheres of
life, to unite in fighting the menace of propagating and spreading of rumors, hate mongering regarding the incidents that happened in the State, which may lead to misinformation about
the real facts of the situation.
Chandranathan has also asked the general public within East Khasi Hills District to contact
the police phone number — 100 and 0364-2222855 or can send messages through the police
social media platform for any kind of queries or assistance.
UNI
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