Shillong, July 16: Following the IED blast incident at the Khliehriat police reserve in East Jaintia Hills district on Wednesday morning, Meghalaya Police have arrested two overground workers of the banned militant outfit Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC). In addition, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said lot of initiatives have been taken since the incident and “you will see the result of that very soon.”

Talking to reporters on Friday, Sangma said, “Yes, there are concerns as I said these are HNLC overground workers and action has been taken on that and will be taken. Further, we will continue to neutralize anybody who tries to disturb the law and order in the state.”

The two arrested by the East Jaintia Hills police have been identified as Nangpynphriang Rymbai (46) from Tongseng village and Mani Phawa (43) from Wapung Skur village.

The Chief Minister however said linking the incident to saying that militancy is coming back or this kind of power that they are having, would be overestimating the entire thing.

He also assured that more intelligence will go into finding out these activities and ensure that such incidents don’t take place in the future.

“The SP and the entire team are infact very efficiently working on this,” he said .