Shillong, Nov 05: Meghalaya police chief Peter James Pyngrope Hanaman will meet his Assam counterpart Jayanto N. Choudhury on Wednesday at Guwahati to discuss the killings and adopt steps for joint patrolling in those areas.
Meghalaya Home Minister Roshan Warjeri said “The confidence building measures will also be adopted.”
Warjeri said, “In order to ensure communal harmony, Meghalaya police chief Peter James Pyngrope Hanaman will meet his Assam counterpart Jayanto N. Choudhury on Wednesday at Guwahati.”
The Home Minister said that the parliamentary Secretary incharge of Home is in Resubelpara trying to build up peace community.
“The states is having own resources, there are additional central forces provided by Ministry of home affairs to ensure to restrain peace,” she said.
The Meghalaya government sounded a security alert on the inter-state border with Assam after seven people were gunned down by suspected tribal Garo militants in Assam’s Goalpara district.
Seven people were killed and nine injured when suspected militants fired indiscriminately at some people in a village in Assam’s Goalpara district.
The incident took place in Gendabari village located on the Assam-Meghalaya border. According to police, all the victims were engaged in gambling on the occasion of Diwali.
The Assam government has imposed an indefinite night curfew from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. within a two km radius of the Assam-Meghalaya border in Goalpara district and the army has been pressed in to prevent any untoward incident.
Although Assam Police are pointing their fingers at the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army – the Meghalaya-based rebel outfit – for carrying out the Sunday night attack, Home Minister Roshan warjeri said “it is yet to be ascertain that it is the handywork of GNLA.”(SP News)
