David Laitphlang
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Meghalaya: Four Assam labourers die after toxic gas leak in septic tank (opens the original)
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Four labourers from Assam died after being trapped inside a newly constructed septic tank at a house in Rangdokram village in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district on Monday afternoon, police said. The deceased were identified as Mofidur Rohman (34), Ajiyer Rahman (41), Ismail Hussain (20), and Rakib Hussain (22). All four were residents of South Salmara-Mankachar district of Assam. The incident occurred around 3pm at the residence of Sebastian Ch Sangma when the labourers reportedly fell into t
Shift 30 foreign nationals to detention centre, orders Meghalaya HC to state (opens the original)
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The Meghalaya high court on Monday ordered the state government to shift around 30 foreign nationals who have completed their prison sentences but remain incarcerated, to a temporary detention centre in Shillong by September 28, amid the court’s scrutiny of prolonged post-sentence detention. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Revati Mohite Dere and justice W Diengdoh issued the direction on Monday while hearing a suo motu matter concerning foreign nationals who completed their sentences b
‘Not happy’: Meghalaya HC questions police over August 19 violence probe (opens the original)
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The Meghalaya High Court on Wednesday pulled up the state police over its investigation into the August 19 Shillong violence, questioning why officers failed to stop a Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) black-flag bike rally in Shillong after participants allegedly breached several conditions set for the rally. A bench of chief justice Revati Mohite Dere and justice W Diengdoh expressed dissatisfaction with the probe’s progress and raised pointed questions regarding the police response before, during,
Meghalaya: Interstate contract killing, ransom network surfaces after 4 killed (opens the original)
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Preliminary investigations into Sunday’s police encounter that killed four suspected criminals including a contract killer in East Garo Hills’ Songsak have exposed a possible Assam-Meghalaya contract-killing and ransom network, police said on Monday. The link surfaced after Assam police identified one of the four men shot dead on Sunday as the alleged gunman involved in the August 23 killing of businessman Abu Syed in Assam’s Damra locality. The encounter appears to be the culmination of an inte
4 armed men killed in Meghalaya encounter, link to businessman’s murder probed (opens the original)
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Four armed men died in an exchange of fire with police during a naka-checking operation at Songsak in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills early Sunday, with investigators probing their possible links to a recent businessman’s murder in a suspected abduction-for-ransom attempt across the interstate border, police said. The encounter took place around 4am, when police conducting the naka allegedly came under fire from the four men as they approached the checkpoint for inspection, East Garo Hills superinte
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