In what has been seen as growing animosity between the two neighbouring states, the Meghalaya police on Monday registered a case against the Assam government on the basis of two FIRs on the Langpi firing incident in which four Khasi villagers were gunned down by the Assam police on May 14.
The first FIR has been filed by the deputy commissioner of the West Khasi Hills district while another by a Langpi villager.
The FIR of the deputy commissioner alleged that the Assam police, who were not in uniform, chased a mob of Khasi villagers about a kilometre inside Meghalaya and sprayed bullets at them resulting in the death of four villagers.
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Pak okays 2 J&K projects
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Pakistan on Monday conceded that its claims did not hold water and withdrew its objection to the construction of two hydel power projects in Jammu and Kashmir.
The withdrawal came on day one of the three-day Indus water commissioner-level talks here after the Indian side provided details of the two projects.
The Pakistani delegation is understood to have made it known that it had no objection to the designs of the Uri-II and Chutak hydel power projects.
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Woman paraded half-naked
AGE CORRESPONDENT
agartala
A young housewife was bitten mercilessly and than paraded half-naked by a village court in Tripura for allegedly having illicit relation with a man. Husband of the victim Nagen Debbarma filed a case at Salema police station against 16 persons who delivered and executed the verdict but the police has not yet arrested any of them as they allegedly belonged to ruling party.
There the village elders accused her of having illicit relation with a man. When she refused to admit the allegation, they mercilessly bitten her and paraded her half-naked.