A public row has broken out between an Assembly employee deputed to the Election Commission of India and another woman, which has resulted in accusations of criminal defamation, impersonation and more.
Addressing reporters today Banrikynti Ryntathiang said that an individual has publicly defamed her by posting false and defamatory information about her on social media and obstructed the official discharge of her duties as deputed by the ECI.
Ryntathiang has been deputed to serve with the ECI and is carrying out the linkage of EPIC and Aadhaar numbers. While doing this in South Shillong constituency, she told reporters today, she visited a house on September 16 in Laban where one Renu Rymbai, whose husband, the latter is said to have claimed, is employed in the Superintendent of Police’s office. Rymbai declined to allow Ryntathiang entry into her house until she spoke with her husband.
Ryntathiang then, according to her version of events, visited the neighbouring house but then returned to Rymbai, who, after an argument, slammed the door on her but not before a photo had been taken of Ryntathiang in front of the house.
This photo was apparently shared through WhatsApp with the warning “Girl asking for PAN card and EPIC going house to house at Laban now plz be aware …. Introducing herself from the Election Commission office…be aware plz inform ur nearby police station”.
Ryntathiang was intimated about this by Hubert Marbaniang, the Assistant Rangbah Shnong of Laban. She then, accompanied by Marbaniang, went to Laban police station to register a complaint.
A police team were ordered to investigate. Rymbai denied any knowledge or having a hand in the dissemination of the WhatsApp message. However, her husband, Aameer Nongbri, subsequently admitted to have sent the message to the police and it was they who caused it to go viral.
“I later came to know that Ameer Nongbri is not an employee of your esteemed office,” Ryntathiang wrote to the Superintendent of Police but rather the employee of a telecom company.
