SHILLONG: South Garo Hills police chief Lakador Syiem, while branding GNLA militants as “third class people” who have no respect for their mothers,sisters and daughters, has made it clear that the 35-year-old woman who was killed by GNLA recently was not a police informer.
Speaking to The Shillong Times on Saturday, Lakador Syiem said, “The act of killing an unarmed woman who was not a threat for them shows how third class they are.”
Reacting to a query about the contradiction in police version that the woman was molested by GNLA militants before being killed, a charge even GNLA has denied, the SP said that the FIR said that she was forcibly pulled and as per the sections of the law, “if any person touches a woman without her consent it is considered as a molestation.”
“Molestation does not mean a person groping or kissing a woman,” he said.
He also denied the allegations of GNLA that the woman was a police informer.
“She was not a police informer and since she was having a tea stall, many people including police personnel used to go to her shop for tea”, Syiem said.
The SP also revealed that the GNLA militants while executing the crime had warned the families and neighbours not to reveal anything to police failing which they would also be killed.
The SP also slammed the critics who have initiated debates on whether the woman was molested by militants or not.
“Why people are debating this topic whether she was molested and why the so called concerned people are not debating about her murder when she was killed in front of her children and husband,” he said.
According to Syiem, the real issue is that she was a mother of four children and now who will take care of her children.