SHILLONG: Police is leaving no stone unturned to nab the miscreants involved in setting ablaze a tea stall vendor, Bisheshwar Das, here recently.
Informing that a search operation was conducted to trace the arsonists, East Khasi Hills SP M Kharkrang said, “We have got some clues in connection with this incident.”
The SP, however, refused to divulge anything in this regard.
Das was critically injured when the arsonists set him on fire inside the tea stall at Bishnupur recently.
Police and paramilitary forces have been told to remain vigilant even as special teams are being positioned across the city especially in locations identified as sensitive.
Meanwhile, family sources on Wednesday said that the 45-year-old tea stall continued to be “critical”, although he was “in a slightly better state” after undergoing treatment in Guwahati-based Nemcare Hospital.
The attack on the tea stall owner is the fourth of a series of attacks on unsuspecting non-tribal people in which two victims succumbed to their injuries.
Pro-ILP groups who differed in their opinion from the state government in tackling influx are hell bent on introducing the ‘British-era’ law which is still in force in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland.