Lawfare, Summons/Notices – Journalists
Journalist Patricia Mukhim was on Monday named in a police complaint for a social media post, reported PTI. A village council in Meghalaya filed the complaint about Mukhim, alleging that her comments on Facebook about the attack on five boys in Lawsohtun village last week could incite communal tension.
On July 3, masked miscreants had attacked five boys on a basketball court in Lawsohtun village. No arrests have been made in the case so far. Eleven suspects have been detained for questioning, East Khasi Hills district Superintendent of Police Sylvester Nongtynger told PTI.
Mukhim, the editor of The Shillong Times and a winner of the Padma Shri, had criticised the Lawsohtun village council for failing to identify the “murderous elements” in the assault case. She had urged Chief Minister Conrad Sangma to not let this be “another case lost in the police files”. She added: “We want action. Criminal elements have no community. They must be dealt with as per the law of the land.”
