Meghalaya: Two persons found dead after anti-CAA protest in East Khasi Hills
Two persons were found dead in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district on Wednesday after a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act called by the Khasi Students’ Union in Ichamati, reported The Shillong Times.
The police said that the bodies of Esan Sing and Sujit Dutta, both non-tribals, were found in Ichamati and Dalda, which are close to Meghalaya’s border with Bangladesh and fall under the Shella Assembly constituency.
Officials were quoted by The Hindu as saying that stones were found near both the bodies.
East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police Rituraj Ravi told reporters on Wednesday that a post-mortem was yet to be conducted. “Additional police teams from Shillong have been sent to the site,” he said.
East Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner SC Sadhu said they were trying to verify if the deaths were connected to the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act rally and that a magisterial inquiry has been ordered.
Ichamati is a scheduled area beyond the jurisdiction of the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to Indian citizenship for refugees from six minority religious communities, except Muslims, from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and have entered the country by December 31, 2014. Passed by Parliament in December 2019, the Act has been...
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