In fresh violence, Meghalaya Governor’s carcade attacked during curfew in ShillongÂ
After a day of no untoward incidents, fresh violence was reported in Meghalaya state capital Shillong during curfew hours on Tuesday when unidentified miscreants attacked the carcade of Governor Satya Pal Malik with stones on its return from Assam after dropping him at an airport there, a Raj Bhavan official mentioned. The Governor took a flight to the nationwide capital and safely landed in Delhi.
“Unidentified miscreants pelted the convoy of cars with stones in Mawlai area of the city when it was returning (from Assam). A few vehicles were damaged in the attack but no one was hurt,” the official mentioned.
Violence erupted in Mawlai and Jaiaw areas of Shillong on Independence Day during the funeral procession of a former militant, who was killed in a current police encounter, prompting the administration to clamp curfew in the state capital and withdraw cell web companies in no less than 4 districts.
An officer in the rank of superintendent of police accompanied the governor to the airport and a proper grievance is more likely to be filed with the East Khasi Hills district administration on Wednesday, the official mentioned. The curfew can be in pressure in Shillong until 5 am of August 18.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Conrad Okay Sangma mentioned that the curfew can be lifted for daylight on Thursday as there have been no untoward incidents in the final 24 hours.
Cheristerfield Thangkhiew, the previous self-styled normal secretary of the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), was shot useless in an encounter when the police raided his residence in the early hours of August 13.
Thangkhiew, who had surrendered in 2018, was shot useless when he allegedly tried to assault a police workforce with a knife during the raid in reference to a collection of IED blasts in the state.
Unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs on the personal residence of the chief minister at Third Mile space of Upper Shillong on Sunday night time however nobody was injured. He was at his official Polo Hills residence at the moment.
A number of hours later, a CRPF automobile continuing to manage the state of affairs got here below assault by a mob who had been burning tyres on a highway at Mawlai. Two police autos had been additionally torched on the two affected areas on Sunday night time. The state of affairs remained peaceable on Monday.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has accredited deployment of further central armed paramilitary forces (CAPFs) to help the state in containing the regulation and order state of affairs in the state capital.
The Meghalaya authorities on Monday introduced a judicial investigation into the encounter killing of the 54-year-old former militant chief.
The state authorities has additionally determined to arrange a peace committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong comprising representatives of civil society organisations and others as members.Â
The Meghalaya Human Rights Commission had on Sunday directed Chief Secretary MS Rao to furnish an in depth report on Thangkhiew’s dying inside 15 days.
