The Meghalaya police on Sunday arrested one more member of an armed group of suspected Bangladeshi intruders who attacked a villager in South West Khasi Hills district on August 9.
The district police said Mubarak Hussain was caught 24 hours after four other gang members — Mefus Rehman (35), Jangir Alom (25), Meruphur Rahman (32) and Saem Hussain (30) — were arrested from a couple of border villages on Saturday.
The police took some of these men, beaten up by the villagers, to a local health centre for treatment. Of the five, Meruphur is allegedly a police constable in Bangladesh.
The district’s Superintendent of Police, B. Jyrwa, said the motive behind their intrusion would be known during interrogation after a remand from the court.
Locals said nine men, armed with pistols and sharp weapons, forced their way into a shop at Rongdangai village near the Bangladesh border early on Saturday. They held Balsrang A. Marak, who was sleeping inside the shop, hostage and took him toward the New Rongdangai village.
