From Our Correspondent
NONGPOH: Nongpoh Police on Tuesday settled an imbroglio amicably between the people of Umsaw Nongbri Village and Priansimai Myrthong after a spate of allegation and counter allegation was about to blow out of proportions.
Local residents informed that Myrthong was allegedly engaged in selling liquor illegally from her residence and was also involved in other activities adverse to the village, following which the villagers had, time and again, asked her to leave the village but in vain.
The Seng Longkmie Raid Nongbri (SLRN) and the people of the village under Rangbah Shnong Rishan Mawphniang locked up the residence of Myrthong on Saturday morning after ordering her and her family to leave the house.
Soon after the incident, Myrthong rushed to the Nongpoh PS and lodged an FIR against Mawphniang, SLRN president Kuldaris Nongrum and secretary Yoris Mawkhap, besides others on allegation of ransacking her residence and locking it up and also looting 3 tolas of gold, Rs. 35,000 in cash, besides threatening to kill her.
Acting on her FIR, a team of the Nongpoh Police went for spot enquiry and found out that the house had been ransacked as complained by Myrthong, but could not ascertain the culprit.
However, over one hundred women and men gheraoed Nongpoh PS to pressurize the police for withdrawal of the FIR lodged by Myrthong.
Considering the gravity of the situation, Nongpoh police officials held a meeting with Mawphniang and the complaint and her family members where the latter agreed to withdraw the FIR and also agreed to settle the dispute in a mutual way under the Dorbar Shnong.