SHILLONG, MAY 7: Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) president Daniel Khyriem was arrested and sent to 14 days judicial custody on Thursday afternoon after he refused to accept the bailable warrant served to him by the special court constituted by the state government to conduct the judicial process for damage suit filed against pro ILP ngos leaders by the district administrations.
Khyriem was arrested from Sadar police station when he accompanied two members who were summoned by the officer In-charge in connection with a complaint lodged by the district administration for allegedly trying to prevent a voters’ enrolment drive conducted in the office of the Deputy Commissioner.
The two members include KSU central-body organizing secretary Bansharai Warjri and Raplang Nongrum, the general secretary of Mawlai circle.
Khyriem was later produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court where he refused to avail the bail offered by the court.
“The court has sent him (Khyriem) to 14 days judicial custody after the special court issued a bailable warrant of arrest and issued summon notices in connection to the damage suit filed against the organization (KSU),” East Khasi hills SP (city) Vivek Syiem told reporters.
Syiem said, “The court has also asked if he wanted to avail a bail but he didn’t want to take any bail.” According to him, all cases were registered under MMPO.
KSU publicity secretary Shemphang Lyngdoh told reporters, “Before coming out of the police station at around 12 noon, a police official of Rilbong outpost came and handed over a bailable warrant issued by the special court on 29 April 2015 asking him (Khyriem) to appear before the court on 16 June 2015.”
Lyngdoh informed that Khyriem did not accept the bailable warrant on the ground that the warrant should be sent to his residence. “After he refused to accept the warrant, he was arrested from the Sadar police station,” he said.
Earlier, agitated by the arrest, KSU members blocked the police Gypsy carrying its president in front of entrance gate to the CJM court even as they demand his immediate release.
The agitating members, who banged on the bonnet of the vehicle, were asking the police to arrest them instead of their president and they were shouting, ‘We are not militants, release our president if the government doesn’t want trouble.”
The members were also not willing to listen to the SP (city) until the time Khyriem came out. Speaking to his members, he said, “Don’t demand for my release but demand should be on the issues put before the government…Let them take me.”
“If the government fails to fulfill the issues demanded by us within one week, be prepared for an intensive agitation,” Khyirem told them. Refusing to take bail, he said, “I have not cowed down and I will not bow down till our demand is achieved.”
Stating that the KSU has produced leaders who are not cowards, Khyriem requested his members, “Allow me to go in peace and now it depends on the wisdom of the central executive committee (CEC) of the KSU to do what is necessary… we will not succumbed.”- By Our Reporter
The leaders of the KSU must learn the idea of the present government under Mukul Sangma. Wake up KSU.
The leader of KSU now must stick on what he said that “NO ILP NO REST” on Madan Student ground where peoples from nearly every part of the State came with great expectation (including me) that we will win. Now, you go to jail for US so all that i can say is “HAVE FAITH IN GOD” that after all what u you have done HOPE THAT WE WILL GET MORE SUPPORT AND THAT WE WILL WIN IN THIS FIGHT. Thank You.