KJNU files FIR against illegal collection on Jowai by-pass

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 9, 2020

The Khasi Jaintia National Union (KJNU) has filed FIR against the alleged illegal collection of money at the check gate located along the Jowai by-pass in West Jaintia Hills district.   

“The police personnel from Ummulong beat house…on the pretext of setting up a check gate at Jowai by-pass within the area of Mukhla-Thadlaskein has illegally collecting money from vehicles plying on the road for the last several months now,” KJNU president, Niman N Shadap said in the FIR submitted to the district SP on October 7.

Shadap also alleged that some unidentified persons in civil dress are also openly collecting money from the trucks in broad daylight at the same check point.

“It is shocked to observe that the police personnel posted at the checkpoint do not take any action against the persons collecting the money from the trucks. The silence of the police personnel posted at the checkpoint over illegal collection of money means consent and it implies two things either they are hand in gloves with them or they are not present in their places of posting and are not performing their duty,” he said. 

Terming the act as a disgrace to the people of the state and the Meghalaya police, the NGO leader said that the check point is not supposed to collect money from the vehicles plying on the bypass but only for the police personnel to contain law and order and crimes within the district.

Shadap also requested the SP to take action against the illegal collection from the trucks and book those involved under relevant sections of the law.