Journalist Patricia Mukhim was on Monday named in a police complaint for a social media post, reported PTI. A village council in Meghalaya ...
Journalist Patricia Mukhim was on Monday named in a police complaint for a social media post, reported PTI. A village council in Meghalaya filed the First Information Report against Mukhim, alleging that her comments on Facebook about the attack on five boys in Lawsohtun village last week could incite communal tension.
On July 3, masked miscreants had attacked five boys at a basketball court in Lawsohtun village. No arrest has been made in the case so far. Eleven suspects have been detained for questioning, East Khasi Hills district Superintendent of Police Sylvester Nongtynger told PTI.
Mukhim, a Padma Shri awardee and the editor of The Shillong Times, had hit out at the Lawsohtun village council for failing to identify the “murderous elements” in the assault case. She had urged Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to not let this be “another case lost in the police files”. She added: “We want action. Criminal elements have no community. They must be dealt with as per the law of the land.”
In the complaint, Lawsohtun village head Lurshai Shylla said Mukhim mentioned the 1979 conflict between tribals and non-tribals in her Facebook post. Shylla alleged that Mukhim’s comments gave fodder to some media houses in West Bengal that gave the incident a communal...
