SHILLONG, SEPT 10: A police requisition mini bus was set on fire and was partially damaged and the Anath Asharam LP School located at Mawprem was set on fire by unidentified miscreants’ damaging the window panes hours before the four days night road blockade started on MondayTuesday.
It was around 10 am that the miscreants attempted to set on fire the Anath Ashram LP School at Mawprem and damaged it partially. In the afternoon at around 3 pm, some miscreants pour petrol on the mini bus ML 05 B 8518 that was requisitioned by the police and set on fire at Nongmynsong. However some people saw the miscreants pouring petrol on the vehicle and managed to put off the fire resulting in partial damage of the bus.
Police have not arrested anyone in the two arson cases.
As the four day night road blockade from 7 pm to 5 am began on Monday called by the ngos to demand for the implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state, vehicles from within and outside Shillong quickly moved to their destinations leaving the usually jam packed roads of the city deserted.
Different parts of Shillong resembled a ghost town as people and vehicles hurried home. Though it was a road blocked it appeared as if it was an unofficial bandh as the business establishments also down their shutter early.
Security personnel were also seen conducting checking’s in various locations of the city and all the vehicles were being frisked. East Khasi hills deputy commissioner Sanjay Goyal informed that magistrates have already been sent to different parts of the city to oversee that normalcy is maintained during the night road blockade.
Goyal also said that the police are conducting special nakas in various parts of the city. The other localities of the city also remain deserted and most of the shopkeepers preferred to shut down their shops quite early in the evening.
During earlier night road blockade called by ngos many cases of arson were reported from various parts of the city and other districts of the state in which private vehicles, government offices and individuals were also attacked and more than twenty people most of them NGO leaders were also arrested.- By Our Reporter
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