Police bust car lifters’ gang
SHILLONG: Police on Tuesday night busted a gang of car lifters while they were trying to sneak out of the State. The gang which was involved in lifting a number of vehicles from the State landed into police net at Umiam Bridge while it was on its way out with a stolen Bolero Pickup. The arrested have been identified as Gautam Tati, Prakash Purkayastha, Sunny Singh, Suresh Singh, Bimal Chanda and Birendra Chandra Das.
SP City Vivek Syiem on Wednesday informed that two other vehicles, an Alto (ML05-K-0621) and a Tata Sumo (ML05-K-8797) used by the car lifters were also seized.
The accused have been remanded in five-day police custody.
Earlier, the police swung into action immediately after a complaint of the theft of the Bolero Pickup (AS-15-C- 2254) from Rynjah was filed on October 11.
Within 10 minutes of receiving the information, check points were set up in different parts of the city to intercept the stolen Bolero Pickup but the four-wheeler could not be traced till next morning.
Sensing that the vehicle could still be in the city, the Special Cell East Khasi Hills placed personnel on selected exits and finally on Tuesday evening, Special Cell personnel intercepted the gang at Umiam Bridge where six persons were arrested and the stolen Bolero Pickup with a fake number plate (ML05-J-8261) was recovered.
It is learnt that the most of the stolen vehicles are smuggled to Nagaland and Manipur.
CM case
SHILLONG: The case filed by Tennydard Marak in Supreme Court regarding the ST status of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, which was scheduled to come up for hearing on October 17, has been postponed.
However, the lawyer of Tennydard said that there is a confusion over the date for next hearing.
As per the case details of the Supreme Court, the next date of hearing is on November 7 whereas as per the eliminated list, the listed items for October 17 will come up on October 31.
Ebola alert
From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: The entire North-East has been put under high alert for the dreaded Ebola after a suspected case came to light in Manipur.
A Japanese tourist currently living in Manipur has been kept in isolation for showing symptoms akin to Ebola. Alerted by this development, all state governments of the North-East have increased their screening procedures for immediate detection of cases of Ebola and have also started keeping a close watch on the entry of foreign nationals in the states, reports said.
Panicked Manipur Government has set Ebola screening gates for passengers at the Imphal airport and at the international border with Myanmar which is its immediate neighbour. But as an additional layer of security, the state is also screening people at its borders with Nagaland and Assam too.
Other NE states are already a pre-existing method of screening foreign nationals for the last few months.
Minor raped
SHILLONG: An unid-entified man alleged raped a three and half year old girl at Mawkyrwat market area, South West Khasi Hills. Police said that the incident took place on October 13 at around 3.30 pm. A police complaint in this regard has been lodged at Mawkyrwat police station by the mother of the victim.