North East Region
Tense Situation : Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma Announces Setting Up Of 7 Police Outposts Along Assam Border
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The Meghalaya Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to set up police outposts at seven locations, including the violence-hit Mukroh village, along the state’s boundary with Assam.
The Cabinet nod was given following the killing of six people in the violence that had on November 22 broken out along the interstate border after a truck allegedly laden with illegally felled timber was intercepted by forest guards from Assam.
Cabinet approved the creation of outposts in sensitive locations in Meghalaya along the border areas viz:
1 Mooriap BOP in East Jaintia Hills
2 Mukroh BOP & Tihwieh BOP in West Jaintia Hills
3 Rani-Jirang BOP in Ri-Bhoi
4 Umwali BOP, Lejadubi BOP & Langpih BOP in West Khasi Hills pic.twitter.com/dI0HZWu1o8— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) November 29, 2022
“The Cabinet approved the proposal for setting up seven BoPs across the Khasi Jaintia Hills region. Of these outposts, two will be erected at Mukroh and Tihwieh villages along the interstate border in West Jaintia Hills district,” Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma told reporters after the meeting of the council of ministers.
