SHILLONG, JUN 2: The Shillong Press Club strongly condemns the arbitrary and ludicrous behavior of Meghalaya Police personnel who raided the residence of its General Secretary Powell Sohkhlet late night on Thursday.
What is appalling is that all personnel except the team leader were masked as if afraid to disclose their identity and entered Sohkhlet’s residence without a warrant and in his absence citing that they were looking for a family member who is a KSU activist.
All personnel were male and they entered even rooms occupied by female members of the family thereby terrifying them and minor children as well.
In a statement issued here, SPC chief David Laitphlang said the Shillong Press Club takes strong exception towards this uncouth and unprofessional behavior by the law keepers.
“We demand stringent action be taken against the concerned personnel with immediate effect,” he said.
According to him, it is expected that Meghalaya Police and especially Shillong police live up to its declared mission of maintaining a ‘Safe and Secure Shillong’ at all times.
The SPC also questioned whether it is necessary to treat a student activist as though he were a wanted criminal or a militant? Shouldn’t he not have been called to report to the concerned police station if at all the police needed him? Was it necessary to barge into his residence late night as if there was no tomorrow?
These questions are just a brief of what one might deduce from this atrocious behavior, it added.
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