Enough proof against 2 KSU members’
Vikash Nandwal case
SHILLONG: The State police have claimed that it has enough proof against two KSU members who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the case in which businessman Vikash Nandwal was set ablaze, even as another KSU leader has been arrested in connection with a separate arson case.
Talking to newsmen here on Monday, Vivek Syiem, SP (City), said, “We have enough evidence against these people (two KSU members) of their involvement.”
Nandwal was set on fire inside his shop at Motphran Point earlier this month. He succumbed to his injuries in a Delhi hospital on Saturday.
Police deployment has been strengthened to ensure that no untoward incident takes place in any part of Shillong, he said adding police was taking various stakeholders including Rangbah Shnong of various localities into confidence in this regard.
He made it clear that police department has not indulged in any ransom arrest and all the arrests were made on the basis of evidence.
Urging the shopkeepers of Shillong to install CCTV camera in their establishments, he informed several shopkeepers have put up CCTV cameras in their shops after the Motphran incident.
Meanwhile, police on Monday arrested the secretary of Student Union’s Mawkynroh unit — Kyntiewborlang Marbaniang — for his alleged involvement in two cases — that of attempted case of arson of a truck and attempt to murder of labourers inside the NEHU campus on October 9.
It may be mentioned that four miscreants had entered the NEHU campus at around 12:50 pm and lobbed a petrol bomb at a Rajasthan-registered drilling machine truck (RJ-03 EA 2141) as a result of which the front portion of the vehicle was damaged.
The miscreants also poured petrol on one labourer Shanbor Hashah with the intention of setting him on fire, but they were unsuccessful in lighting up the fire and he managed to escape.