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NONGPOH: The HNYF Nongpoh Circle on Wednesday apprehended 15 persons suspected to be Bangladeshi Nationals from Umlyngkdait.
Upon receiving information of the suspected Bangladeshi traveling in a Tourist Sumo ML 05 G 9138, the HNYF members detained them at Umlyngkdait.
The persons were found to be traveling without valid documents to establish their claim of being Indian Nationals. They were later deported to Assam.
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NONGTOIN: At about 6 AM on Thursday, a bus carrying 20 passengers on its way from Wahkaji to Nongstoin skidded off the road and fell into a gorge killing one and injuring several others.
Eye-witnesses said that the bus bearing registration no ML 10-1132 with 20 passengers had left the Wahkaji bus station at 6 AM. Barely after 5 minutes, the bus skidded off the road. The deceased, Barisha Iawren (14) of Mawduh village died on the spot. Several others were injured and were taken to Civil Hospital Nongstoin. Out of the 13 injured, 3 of them are said to be in a critical condition.
They are Teinambha Umiap (16) of Nongryngkew A, Jenstar Thongni (26) and Dablin Iawren (27) of Mawduh village. All the passengers were on their way to Nongstoin, as Nongstoin had its market day on Thursday. The cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained but survivors say that it was the negligence of the bus driver.
Assault
On January 10 at around 3 am, unidentified miscreants assaulted one Sanjeet Bhuyan (38) at Mawryngkneng (EKH).
House torched
One Phul Bareh lodged a complaint at Jowai PS that on January 8 at around 3:30 am, her husband, Teibait Biam set fire to her house at Raliang (WJH). Loss of property was estimated around Rs. 10 lakh.
Threatening case
One Bailinroy Mukhim and others lodged a complaint at Jowai PS that while VDP Hynniew Shnong of Rakabah area (WJH) were conducting vehicle checking on January 5 at about 10 am, one Precious Dkhar, Jied Nongrum and Hilarius Dkhar had threatened them with dire consequences.
One Precious Dkhar lodged a complaint at Jowai PS that on January 5 at around 9:15 am, while he along with Jied Nongrum, Hilarius Dkhar and others were preceding towards Rakabah village (WJH), one Bailin Mukhim, Phul Passah and others stopped their vehicle, threatened them and checked their belongings. Later, Rs. 20,000/- was found missing from a bag.
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NONGSTOIN: With barely two months to the 2013 Assembly Elections in the State, another independent candidate from 34- Mawshynrut AC, Tonington Tyrsa of Mawmarin Village in West Khasi Hills District has announced his candidature.
Tonington a retired Gram Sevak of Maweit Circle is also a social activist, who had been playing a key role in the demand for better roads between Maweit and Nongstoin. After his stint as a Gram Sevak, he joined the coal trading business and also became the secretary of the union.
It was Tonongton who in 2008, urged and advised his fellow coal- traders to collectively repair the Maweit- Nongstoin road as the govt was never going to do so. In this regard he had also led a protest rally from Maweit to Nongstoin on July 28, 2008.
Tonington was also a youth leader during his days and worked actively for many years in Maweit.
Upon being asked as to why he had not joined any party, he replied that the rules and regulations of parties restricted him to work freely.
Earlier, Tonington was one of the instrumental leaders of Nassar Marwein who had contested in the 2009 MDC elections from Nongstoin.
Tonington’s father, Korthasingh Umiong was a dedicated Congressman who had worked tirelessly in the MDC elections in 2004 where he was able to secure the party with a comfortable win.
It may be mentioned that Mawshynrut so far has the most number of candidates in the upcoming polls. So far there are 12 candidates that have made their candidatures known to the people. If all them are successful in the scrutiny, a candidate would require just 4000 votes to win.
It may also be mentioned that Maweit was earlier a part of Nongstoin AC but after delimitation, Maweit went to the kitty of Mawshynrut AC.
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JOWAI: An Eighteen-year-old mentally unstable woman was allegedly raped by one Dramiko Rynjah of Nonglatem village on December 29 at around 9 pm.
Jowai Police arrested the alleged rapist on Thursday evening. Sources informed that Rynjah, father of three, forcibly dragged the woman to a nearby garden and committed the crime.
“We came to know about the incident only after Rynjah himself told us what happened. We immediately informed the Rangbah Shnong and the headman instructed us to lodge a complaint with the Police”, said one of her relative. The same person has raped the girl twice. Last year, the matter was compromised between the clans of the girl, the accused and the Dorbar Shnong”, the relative said.
Health Camp
The Unitarian Charitable Health Centre, Madan Laban will organize a free health camp on January 12 at Puriang village from 10 am to 4 pm.
Centenary Jubilee
The Divine Mercy Parish Mawryngkneng) East Khasi Hills district will conclude the Centenary Jubilee Celebration on January 13 at Mawryngkneng at 10am which will start with a Holy Mass.
Immigrants apprehended
On January 7 at around 10.30 am, police detected three Bangladeshi nationals, Md. Abdul Salam (26), Md. Lias Ali (26) and Md. Salim (24) at Umtyra (East Jaintia Hills).
Sanadola Iacais
Sanadola Iacais, a retd nurse passed away on January 9. Her funeral will be held on January 11 at 2pm form her residence at Nongshilliang, Malki.
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Guwahati: More than a month after a lower court here pronounced verdict in the infamous July 9, 2012 Guwahati molestation case, Assam government has moved Gauhati High Court contesting acquittal of four of the accused including a TV journalist in the case.
The verdict of the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Kamrup district, that was pronounced on December 7 last facilitated release of four persons including a TV journalist accused in the case while 11 others were awarded sentence in various sections of the IPC including the prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita.
However, four other accused including a local television channel journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog, Hafizuddin, Diganta Basumatary and Jitumoni Deka were acquitted ‘due to lack of evidence’.
As the acquittal of the four accused has sparked protests in the State, Assam government has decided to appeal against the lower court verdict in the High Court.
Earlier, the CJM court convicted prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita along with 10 others under various Sections of IPC.
Besides Kalita, the others convicted include Puspendra Das, Sikandar Basfor, Dhanraj Basfor, Nabajyoti Baruah, Nabajyoti Deka, Deepak Deb, Rubul Ali, Deba Das, Rupkanta Kalita and Ghanasyham Kumar Malik.
All of them were sentenced to two years in jail and asked to pay a fine of Rs 2000 each.
Altogether 16 persons were taken into custody. One of the accused was a minor and his case was handled in the juvenile justice court.
The widely condemned incident occurred around 9 P.M. on July 9 last year along the arterial Guwahati-Shillong Road in the heat of the state’s capital city.
It caught the attention of the entire nation once the footage were beamed by TV channels as well as uploaded on the YouTube.
The girl was harassed ,heckled and molested by a group of people outside a bar on the night while the entire episode was recorded by journalists from a local TV channel including Gaurav Jyoti Neog, which was later telecast and even uploaded on Youtube also.
Guwahati: Accusing Congress of mismanagement and siphoning of funds meant for rural development schemes, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said the electorate of Assam would reject the ruling party in the upcoming panchayat polls in the state.
“The electorate in rural areas have understood the facts regarding the magnitude of mismanagement indulged in by the Tarun Gogoi led government. We firmly believe that in the upcoming panchayat polls, our the voters will reject the Congress and vote for the BJP,” state BJP president Sarbananda Sonowal said here.
Speaking during a function to release the party’s manifesto for the panchayat polls, Sonowal also accused the Congress government of subverting the panchayati raj institution by not decentralising power to local bodies.
He also accused the Congress government of encouraging settlement of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants” in villages and reserved forests of the state.
“There is total mismanagement in all sector. The public distribution system is in chaos with salt being sold at Rs 10 per kg in the black market insetad of the stipulated Rs 3 per kg in fair price shops and similar is the case with all our products,” the former Lok Sabha MP said.
In it manifesto, the BJP said if it wins the panchayat polls it would take steps to increase productivity of farm land, give land to landless farm labourers, provide subsidised fertiliser, promote animal husbandry, focus on rural education, health, water supply and employment generation, among other steps.
The panchayat polls in Assam will be held in three phases on January 30, February 6 and February 12 next.
Asked how many seats the BJP expects to win in the panchayat polls, Sonowal refrained from giving a direct reply and said: “We believe BJP will receive the guidance and blessings of the rural people of Assam.”
Regarding recent comments made against him by Asom Gana Parishad president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Sonowal refused to be drawn into the matter and said that “Congress is our main rival.”
“Besides highlighting the corruption, inflation and mismanagement of the Congress government, we are also presenting an alternative for the interest of the poor and deprived people of 23,000 villages of Assam besides the lakhs of workers in the tea gardens of the state,” Sonowal said. (PTI)
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TURA: Seeking justice and fair dealing regarding an incident of police high-handedness, the Nokma of Sakalgre, Tura submitted a complaint to the Officer-in-Charge of Tura Police Station against SWAT members of the Police.
Allegedly, on December 20 last, at around 4:00 pm SWAT members entered the village of Sakalgre in two gypsy vehicles and beat up four villagers with firewood and rifle butts unprovoked, causing them severe injuries.
The Nokma informed that the four villagers who were assaulted by the SWAT commandoes were Tony T Sangma (30), Bester T Sangma (35), Nelbin T Sangma (18) and Pedison M Sangma (45).
The Nokma also alleged that the SWAT commandoes had plucked and took with them hundreds of oranges from an orange orchard in the village without making any payments rendering the owner of the orchard a wrongful loss of about Rs 5000.
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