SHILLONG, FEB 25: Four persons including a village Nokma have been arrested by the police for multiple murders that rocked Garo hills. The four arrested by the police have been identified as Lind B Marak (28), who is a village Nokma, Robson P Marak (45), Chendal T Sang (58) and Seminal B Marak (46). All the four have been remanded to judicial custody.
A senior police officer said police will also investigating the angle where the people in Garo Hills are fed up with criminals and militants and have resorted to lynching them”
On Tuesday, the bodies of five persons including that of a school teacher and an elderly woman were recovered in a mass grave in a remote village in West Garo Hills district. According to police, the victims are members of two families and were allegedly tortured and lynched to death by the villagers on suspicion that they were practicing witchcraft.
The incident took place in the first week of January earlier this year in Mrigre village which is about 5 km away from Rongram and the matter was hushed up until police cracked the case while investigating a missing person’s report made by a relative of one of the deceased.
What followed was a thorough investigation into the case and recording of statements of at least sixty villagers before the police were led to the two sites where the bodies were buried, police said. The bodies were exhumed for inquest on Monday last in the presence of a magistrate, two doctors and police officers.
All the victims were found with their hands tied behind their backs and their bodies bore marks and patches indicating they suffered fatal injuries caused by blunt objects, the police officer said.
Among those who were murdered was a school teacher David M T Sangma and his father Hedison B Marak. In another grave, the bodies of Hallen T Sangma, his wife Bala T Sangma and their son Washing T Sangma (30) were found also with the similar kind of treatment meted out to them before they died.- By Our Reporter
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