Meghalaya government

Shillong, Sep 13: Meghalaya police on Monday arrested 5 officials of the Jowai district prison after Saturday’s incident of jailbreak, said the government. While a magisterial inquiry changed into ordered into Sunday’s lynching of 4 of the six escapees via way of means of a mob in West Jaintia Hills.

Home Minister Lahkmen Rymbui instructed the Assembly on Monday that an SP changed into heading a separate probe via way of means of the police into the incident of jailbreak. He stated a mob of now no longer much less than 5,000 people had executed the attack.

The escapees include 5 under-trial prisoners and a convict who was undergoing the present process of his prison term. The minister appealed to human beings now no longer to take the regulation into their fingers and cooperate with the police.


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The official source stated an ADM could head the magisterial inquiry and the document could be submitted via way of means on September 19 West Jaintia Hills District Magistrate Batlang S Sohliya instructed this newspaper, “One of those who escaped from the prison is absconding whilst some other is withinside the custody of the police. He changed into stuck via way of means of the mob however rescued via way of means of the police. He is great now.”

The six had escaped after attacking and overpowering the jail protection personnel. According to reports, the arrested officers had allegedly connived with the escapees and facilitated their escape. After their bold escape, the six had divided themselves into corporations of 5 and one.

When the locals noticed the 5 at Shangpung withinside the district on Sunday afternoon, they attacked them with sticks and rods. Four of them had misplaced their lives withinside the incident. The sufferers got here under the locals’ glare once they had long gone out from a hideout to shop for meals for them.