Meghalaya: Car driven by BJP minister’s son kills constable; son gets bail as family doesn’t file FIR
A Meghalaya armed police constable was killed and a jail official injured in an accident involving a two-wheeler and a car driven by Aibansharai Nongseij, son of Meghalaya BJP leader and health and family welfare minister Alexander Hek on April 7.
Alexander Hek. Credit: Twitter
According to local media reports quoting the police, the two-wheeler was driven by the jail official, Probin D. Sangma, while the constable, Probat R. Marak, was riding pillion when it had a head-on collision with Hek’s son’s car, a newly-bought Mercedes with a temporary number, in Shillong’s Fourth Furlong Tri-junction. While Marak was declared dead by doctors at the Shillong Civil Hospital, Sangma is said to be in a critical condition at the Northeast Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences.
Though the minister’s son was arrested by East Khasi Hills police, on April 10 he was released from custody as the police said Marak’s family didn’t file an FIR.
Davies Marak, the district police chief, told reporters, “There is no need to produce Nongsiej in the court as it is a bailable offence and police are competent enough to give him bail as long as he is cooperating and since the family was not filing any FIR, the police took up the case on suo moto basis.”
Assam: 12 arrested for assaulting woman in a suspected case of moral policing
As many as 12 people were arrested in a suspected case of moral policing after a video went viral in Assam showing a woman being assaulted by a group of youth for going out with a male friend in Goalpara district as her marriage was fixed with another person.
A screenshot of the video. Credit: YouTube
According to local media reports quoting Golapara superintendent of police Amitava Sinha, the incident took place in Aolguri area of the district under Krishnai police station. The 22-year-old woman was reportedly waylaid by the youths, said to be drunk, to seek an explanation for being seen with a man even after she was engaged to be married to someone else. They later beat them up and particularly targeted the woman.
The police registered an FIR after the video was widely circulated and took into custody six people involved in the incident on April 8 and six more on April 9. Both the woman and her assaulters belong to the Garo community.
Sinha told reporters that the police is conducting further enquiry to find out the involvement, if any, of more persons in the case.
Tripura: Procession in Agartala to celebrate UN body categorising Bangladesh as a developing nation from a least developed country
The Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala organised a procession in the capital city on April 4 to celebrate the upgradation of the country from a least developed to a developing country by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy.
A video grab of the event. Credit: ANI
The procession with the banner “Ananda Shobhajatra” saw a large number of people, including artists, school students, academics and social activists of Tripura taking part in it holding mini flags of the country besides Bangladeshi officials and their families.
Bangladesh’s Assistant High Commissioner Shakhawat Hossain told local reporters that similar events were held in around 80 Bangladeshi diplomatic missions across the world to celebrate the UN body’s categorisation. Hossain said Bangladesh was included in the developing country categorisation based on fulfilment of three criteria required for it — per capita income, human resource development and economic uplift.
Besides a panel discussion held at the Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan to highlight Bangladesh’s accomplishment in different human and economic indexes, a floral tribute was paid to the father of that nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Hossain thanked India for “playing a great and historic role” in the success and independence of Bangladesh.
