As protestors run amok in Shillong against the killing of the ex-HNLC leader a sight that displayed utter lawlessness was a video of unidentified men brandishing police weapons.
The incident took place during the funeral of the ex-HNLC leader Cherishterfield Thangkhiew on Sunday. According to police the incident took place at around 1 pm after a black Scorpio belonging to the Mawkynroh Police Outpost bearing registration number ML05-F- 3013 was captured by them.
Police reported that three INSAS rifles were decamped.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma informed that the police personnel from whom assault rifles were snatched from Mawlai Mawkynroh have been suspended.
“What happened yesterday was unacceptable, whether it was from the police personnel who were present out there or on the part of the individuals who had taken it,” he said.
He also said that the government will take firm action against all those people who are involved and demanded that those involved should to immediately give back these weapons.
“For the police their arms and weapons are as good as the parts of their body and they should never ever let go of their weapons,” the Chief Minister said.
Moreover, on the petrol bomb attack on his personal home at Third Mile on Sunday night, he said that such activities are meaningless. Sangma was at his official residence in Polo at the time.
According to him, in the past different kind of elements have tried to create unrest even as he appealed to all the citizens of the State especially to those who are involved in these kind of activities that this is not the way forward.
“I appeal to everybody that they must try to resolve these issues in a proper manner and violence is not the way forward. Therefore, we condemn it and obviously we will be finding the people responsible for this,” he said.
