SHILLONG: The State Government is building up a case to put the arrested CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing under MPDA.
According to sources, the delay in final verdict on the bail application of Kharshiing is apparently due to the move of the Government to prepare a dossier on Kharshiing to implicate her under MPDA.
The move to put Kharshiing under MPDA has already received clearance from the Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary.
The Special Branch of the Home Department has been asked to prepare a dossier on Kharshiing to put her under MPDA, a move which is aimed at preventing Kharshiing to pursue many pending corruption issues.
If MPDA is slapped on Kharshiing, she would not be able to pursue several FIRs and RTIs filed by her pertaining to various anomalies in the functioning of Government.
Moreover, it will also cast a shadow on the move of her brother John Kharshiing, who has applied for Congress party ticket to contest from Shillong seat in the Lok Sabha election due in 2014.
Kharshiing was arrested on Friday last after she allegedly obstructed the demolition of houses at Umsawli under New Shillong Township.
However, the irony is that the police immediately acted on the FIRs filed by MUDA and the driver of JCB, while there is yet to be any proper inquiry into the FIR filed by Kharshiing where she alleged that MUDA is possessing land at Umsawli without any valid document.
Kharshiing claimed that the land documents related to Umsawli area in the possession of MUDA are forged and incomplete.
The arrest of Kharshiing comes a few days after she announced that she would move the Supreme Court against the delay in taking action against those involved in the tampering of mark sheets of eligible candidates for the appointment as Government teachers when the present Urban and Municipal Affairs Minister Ampreen Lyngdoh was the Education Minister.
Moreover, it was on November 7 last year that the CSWO and Meghalaya Right to Information Movement (MRTIM) field an FIR before Laitumkhrah police station to initiate investigation against those involved in the education scam. Police are yet to act on the FIR field by CSWO and MRTIM.
The CSWO chief in her FIR alleged that the CBI report had clearly mentioned that former Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh had instructed the then Director of Director Elementary and Mass Education (DEME) JD Sangma and two of her supporters to tamper, forge the score-sheets by applying white fluid “wherever there is need to increase the marks and deduct the marks of the deserving candidates.”