SHILLONG: The Joint Action committee (JAC) of Mawlai has warned against allowing trucks from the Assam-based Saikia Company to enter Meghalaya till the demand of the committee is met.
It may be mentioned that the drivers who belonged to Saikia Company were alleged to be involved in beating up Dismarlin Lyngdoh Lyngkhoi who is a resident of Mawlai Mawroh and is employed as Home Guard personnel in FCI on April 24 at FCI Warehouse in Ri-Bhoi District. Lyngdoh succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
Condemning the incident, a statement from the JAC demanded the Home Guard department to appoint a family member of the deceased and also compensation from the Company as he was the sole bread earner in the family with 5 children, the youngest one being a 3-month-old baby.
The JAC was formed on Friday in a meeting convened by the Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) Mawlai circle at Community Hall Mawlai Mawroh to condemn Lyngdoh’s death, a resident of Mawlai Mawroh.
The JAC will also put on black ribbons and black flags on his funeral on Saturday at Mawlai Mawroh. The JAC will again sit on Monday to decide on the date and time to hold a rally to protest the killing of Lyngdoh.
The JAC has urged the police to nab the culprits at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the FKJGP central body led by its general secretary, Dundee Cliff Khongsit met the officials of FCI Regional office in Shillong on Friday with a request to take up the issue of murder of Lyngdoh who was entrusted to guard FCI go-down at Khanapara seriously.
In addition, the organisation demanded that the FCI should stop transporting commodities using the trucks of the particular company unless the culprits are handed over to the police.