Shillong, Feb 22: The wife of Trinamool Congress’s Umroi candidate George Lyngdoh, Therezia A Syiem, said on Wednesday that no help camedespite calling the local police four times on Monday night.
In a police complaint filed at the Khapmara PIC in Ri Bhoi, Syiem said the group of miscreanta attacked, harassed and threatened her and her brothers.
“Out of the said gathering, some of them started physically assaulting the undersigned and her brothers, including the driver of the vehicle,” stated the police complaint. “In the process of assaulting the undersigned, they had also outraged her modesty. One person….kicked the undersigned on her legs and stomach while others were provoking the gathering/their friends to kill my brother…by putting a rope around his neck and dragged him towards the crowd,” the complaint read.
While the group managed to escape the spot, their ordeal did not end. After the complainant returned to her house in Umroi Labansaro village, the miscreants followed them back and engaged in nuisance yet again. Despite two calls to the police between 3-4 AM, no help was sent to protect the family from the unruly gang outside their house.
*“It appeared that the police intentionally did not turn up so that those individuals involved in the incident could carry out their nefarious motive. It is unfortunate to point out that if the police had taken cognisance on the basis of information given by my husband, the said culprit(s) could have been arrested for creating nuisance, physically assaulting, and outraging the modesty of a woman,” the complainant wrote.
She also added that incident came only a few days after a WhatsApp message was circulated asking people from the village to inform them if MLA George B Lyngdoh was conducting house visits in the area. “It is apparent from the said message that the said individual had some ill-motive against the undersigned and my husband,” the complainant wrote.
