Tura, July 15: Five extortionists were lynched to death yesterday in remote Jambal village under Rongjeng police station in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills, a delayed report said.
Villagers reported the matter today at Ronjeng police station. “We have been informed that a group of dacoits tried to extort money from the villagers on yesterday night by threatening them with small weapons. The angry villagers retaliated by attacking them and five were killed while the rest fled,” said East Garo Hills SP, Davis
Nestell R Marak.
The unidentified men had descended on the village yesterday evening and demanded that the villagers pay them tax. They had threatened some of the elders with pistols and when the mob of people decided to oppose them, the dacoits reportedly opened fire in the air to scare them off. However, the public refused to be cowed down and instead
charged at them.
Five of the extortionists were caught and beaten to death while the rest of the gang fled for their lives. Police teams from Rongjeng have since left for the site to retrieve
the bodies, when reports last came in.(SP News)
