SHILLONG: The CSWO has questioned the Government for not taking action against the alleged complicity of the jail authorities in use of mobile phones in Tura District Jail.
Commenting on the police action against Solly Sangma, a suspected GNLA cadre, who was picked up from Tura Jail on November 24 in connection with sending threat message through mobile phone targeting a police official in East Khasi Hills, CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing in a statement issued to the media alleged that jail authorities at Tura should also be taken to task for allowing mobiles inside the Jail.
Five mobiles were found from different barracks in the jail and not from Solly’s ward, the CSWO informed.
According to police, along with Solly, another suspected cadre identified as Johny A. Marak was also picked up from Tura Jail for sending the threat message.
According to Kharshiing, action against Solly was taken after he filed an FIR in Tura, on May 1 this year which was transferred to Phulbari PS, against one Jesty A Sangma. Solly had also filed a complaint with NHRC in May against Bruno A Sangma, Additional SP West Garo Hills and a close relative of Jesty A Sangma.
NHRC received the reply of the concerned authorities and asked Solly to reply by November 28. “This drama by police is a ploy to find out what reply was made by Solly or his father, and in the guise of accusing him a GNLA cadre, police raided the house of one Lucas Marak and took away the laptops where the replies were typed.
The police official from Shillong who is alleged to have been threatened through Facebook happens to be a close cousin of Jesty A Sangma and he is also related to Bruno A Sangma, Kharshiing said.
According to Kharshiing, Solly had revealed to his mother that police had tortured him in Shillong.