Shillong: A 38-year-old coal merchant, wanted in the murder attempt on Meghalaya's frontline women's rights activist Agnes Kharshiing and her aide, was arrested from Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Assam today, police said.
"The special team of Meghalaya Police picked up Showmewell B Kyndait from Guwahati airport following intelligence input that he was attempting to fly to New Delhi to evade police arrest in connection with the attack on the two women's activists," Sylvester Nongtnger, the district police chief of East Jaintia Hills, told news agency IANS.
Kyndait, a resident of Shangpung village, was arrested by Khliehriat police after he told his interrogators that "he was one of those people" who brutally assaulted Kharshiing and her aide Amita Sangma on November 8 at Tuber Sohshrieh area in East Jaintia Hills district, police said.
With the arrest of Kyndait, the total number of people arrested in the case has risen to seven, including a 44-year-old woman Skhemlang Dkhar on Wednesday from Jowai, the district headquarters of West Jaintia Hills.
"Search is on to arrest the other accuses in the case. We are hopeful to arrest them," Mr Nongtnger said.
23/11/18 IANS/NDTV
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"The special team of Meghalaya Police picked up Showmewell B Kyndait from Guwahati airport following intelligence input that he was attempting to fly to New Delhi to evade police arrest in connection with the attack on the two women's activists," Sylvester Nongtnger, the district police chief of East Jaintia Hills, told news agency IANS.
Kyndait, a resident of Shangpung village, was arrested by Khliehriat police after he told his interrogators that "he was one of those people" who brutally assaulted Kharshiing and her aide Amita Sangma on November 8 at Tuber Sohshrieh area in East Jaintia Hills district, police said.
With the arrest of Kyndait, the total number of people arrested in the case has risen to seven, including a 44-year-old woman Skhemlang Dkhar on Wednesday from Jowai, the district headquarters of West Jaintia Hills.
"Search is on to arrest the other accuses in the case. We are hopeful to arrest them," Mr Nongtnger said.
23/11/18 IANS/NDTV
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