Meghalaya petrol bomb attacks: Government taking steps to address issue, says CM

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya government is making every effort to address the deteriorating law and order situation in state owing to rise in petrol bomb attacks in recent times.

This was stated by Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma on Friday (May 03) while interacting with the media.

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma claimed that frequent petrol bomb attacks in Shillong as a 'response' to specific actions undertaken by the state government.

He said that the Meghalaya government remains committed to ensure that any action taken to apprehend individuals involved in certain incidents were based solely on evidence and facts.

“And because of that we did expect that there would be some reaction. So we should be very clear that this is a reaction to a certain reaction or certain action that took place and therefore, we were not surprised as such,” the Meghalaya CM said.

It may be mentioned here that at least eight cases of petrol bomb attacks were reported in Meghalaya in the past one month.

These include the attacks on three police stations – Shillong Sadar police station, Rynjah police station and Mawlai police station, MGCC office, Jowai Police Reserve and Water Resource department.

However, no arrest has been made in connection with these petrol bomb attacks cases.

“Yes, it is happening very often but we are very much aware and we are working towards ensuring that none of these incidents should happened and the police has taken further steps but I don’t want to go into the details,” Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma said.

He added: “Police are on the job and we are very sure that the situation will be under control and I assure the people of the city and the state that the government is doing everything in its capacity to ensure these incidents are controlled and they don’t happen in the future.”

“On general fact that nobody can take the law in their hands the police and the government will go as per the law and if anybody commits a crime, the law has procedures to go forward to take action against those people who commit crimes and hence it is not about any organization or anybody from any particular this group or that that group, it is purely based on crime and purely base on law and purely based on evidence and that is how we have been moving forward and that is how we will move forward in the future also,” the Meghalaya CM further said.