Shillong, January 31: Suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants kidnapped the brother of Garo hills legislator Samuel Sangma in South Garo Hills district, police informed on Friday.
Sangma’s younger brother Naga M Sangma, who is 39 years old, was kidnapped by a group of four suspected GNLA militants from his house at Gasuapara area last night, additional superintendent of police of South Garo Hills Abraham Sangma said.
Police suspected that the militants had abducted him for ransom as he is also a coal exporter to Bangladesh.
However, no ransom call has so far been received by his family.
“I don’t know the reason for his abduction. I have no idea if the rebels had served him an extortion note,” legislator Samuel Sangma said.
Several militant groups operating in Garo Hills have served extortion notes on petrol pump owners, coal dealers and businessmen in the coal-rich districts of the Garo Hills.
The Meghalaya police along with the central paramilitary forces have launched a search operation to rescue Naga.
The GNLA is militant group led by police officer-turned rogue Champion R Sangma is fighting for a separate Garoland in western part of Meghalaya. However Sangma is currently in the Shillong disrtict jail.
The outfit, which has number of rogue Meghalaya police personnel, maintains close-links with Assam-based outlawed ULFA and the NDFB.- By Our Reporter
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