DGP displays ANVC-B FIR
TURA: Meghalaya Director General of Police Peter James Pyngrope Hanaman has displayed the police FIR given by the ANVC-B to enquire into the disappearance of three cadres and said that the militant group is not true in its intentions.
The display of the ANVC-B FIR before media persons in Tura including The Shillong Times by DGP Hanaman at the office of the West Garo Hills Superintendent of Police (SP) on Wednesday morning negated the claims of ANVC-B chairman Rimpu N Marak (Bernard) who had all along claimed that his organisation had not filed any missing report.
The FIR that had been given in the official letter pad of the ANVC-B and duly signed by Rangdo R Marak, joint secretary of the outfit, was shown to all by the State police chief. The missing report given by the ANVC-B even had photographs of the three missing cadres with their names as Rarong, Senn and Kakimchi (both girls).
“Our boys went to Edenbari camp only because of the FIR given by ANVC-B, and on entry were fired upon. How can they claim that the policemen fell and hurt themselves when both had gunshot wounds?” questioned the Meghalaya DGP.
He revealed that the two injured police officials – Sub-Inspector Starson Sangma and Head Constable Chitaranjan Banai – have been taken for treatment to Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) Hospital for extraction of the shotgun pellets lodged inside their bodies.
The police chief warned that action would be taken as per the law on anyone indulging in criminal activities.
“There is a law and if ANVC-B or any other group indulges in crime, police will have to act,” said the DGP.
He denied allegations of Tura Police being ‘trigger happy’ and said, “When our officers and men are being fired upon they will need to return fire to protect themselves.”
‘ANVC-B camps were illegal’
DGP PJP Hanaman on Wednesday has revealed that the ANVC-B outfit has not even once provided the Government with a list of their cadres and even their camps at Edenbari and the encounter site at Daren Agal village near Dobasipara, were illegal.
“They have no designated camps and as such their occupation of these places is illegal. Only the main ANVC outfit has three designated camps at Rongsak, Chokpot and Tura,” informed Hanaman.
Tura Police had earlier said that ANVC-B cadres had established illegal camps on the land owned by its chairman Rimpu Marak. Another camp was reportedly set up at Ranggira Hills on another plot of land belonging to its chairman.