The Meghalaya Police on Tuesday stated FIRs have been registered towards individuals who allegedly made “false propaganda” towards residents of the state within the aftermath of the Indore honeymooner’s homicide.
Within the weeks since Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi from Indore had first “gone lacking” in Meghalaya on Might 23, there was scrutiny on the state, starting from strategies that the 2 have been victims of against the law by locals to questions on whether or not the state is secure for vacationers. Nonetheless, on Monday, police stated Raja was killed by hitmen employed by Sonam and a person she was in a relationship with.
East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem stated, “There are some individuals who have given communal statements towards the native folks right here. We now have taken that into cognizance as a result of there are folks from right here finding out outdoors, and a few have stated ‘allow us to hurt the area people outdoors’. We now have taken a suo motu case towards this individual. One other FIR has additionally come towards such individuals who have made false propaganda.”
A number of ministers from Meghalaya have additionally spoken towards what they alleged was “an assault on the picture of Meghalaya”.
“It’s clearly a case that concerned a love triangle. It’s also a case the place the primary accused had engaged contract killers with a purpose to perform a heinous crime. So, the state and the folks of Meghalaya at present stand vindicated… The position of a bit of the nationwide media has additionally come to the eye of the state authorities. They’ve been operating a media trial over the previous week, and actually, a few of the instant households of each the accused and the sufferer have used very defamatory language towards Meghalaya. There have been additionally cases the place that they had gone to the extent of inciting folks to take revenge towards the folks of Meghalaya,” stated state Tourism Minister Paul Lyngdoh.
“The state authorities has, by the police, already registered FIRs. We may also transfer by authorized means to make sure that all these perpetrators of the assault on the picture of Meghalaya will likely be dropped at guide,” he stated.
Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong additionally referred to the matter, calling it “hurtful”.
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“From the federal government’s aspect, we have been so deeply harm after we noticed so many feedback made on social media and the nationwide information, which handled Meghalaya as a den of criminals… However we’ve already instructed you that Meghalaya could be very secure. Our police drive is among the greatest within the nation. We now have proved it,” he stated.