Tura, August 3: Rakhi Sangma, allegedly one of the main instigator of Tura violence was arrested on Thursday from Nisangram, near Damra, NGH.
Rakhi, a woman member of the BJP mahila morcha and one of the last remaining key conspirators of the July 24 violence in Tura’s Dakopgre.
According to reports, Rakhi is said to be one among a handful of persons who is said to have instigated the mobs that attacked the CM mini Secretariat was arrested from a forestin Nishangram, near Damra on the Assam-Meghalaya border.
She has been on a run for more than one week.
Police said Rakhi Sangma was reportedly caught from the forest area during a police raid following a tip off.
“We received inputs that she was taking shelter in someone’s house in the Nishangram area and launched operations. She was spotted inside a forest close to a river, ” informed West Garo Hills SP V S Rathore.
Reportedly, Rakhi fled with her husband to the Nishangram area after the Tura violence and her name had cropped up in the investigation.
She was at the venue in Tura when the mob turned violent and had a series of communications with another accused conspirator Jaynie Ningring Sangma.
Police have recovered a series of social media chat communication between the two where minute by minute detail instructions were allegedly shared prior to and during the attack.
At least 48 persons including Rakhi and other members of political parties have been arrested in connection with the violence in Tura on July 24.
Earlier, Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma had said that they would wait for the initial reports of the police on the Tura violence before deciding on what needs to be done next.
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