Tura, March 9 -- District authorities in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills today imposed night curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further orders in several sensitive areas of the district following protests by certain civil society groups regarding the participation of non-tribals during the filing of nomination papers for the upcoming elections to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC).
Former Meghalaya legislator, S.G. Esmatur Mominin, aspiring to contest the elections to the tribal council, was allegedly assaulted by unidentified miscreants in Tura, the district headquarters of West Garo Hills.
Mominin, a Bengali-speaking Muslim, was allegedly assaulted on the first day of filing of nomination for GHADC elections scheduled to be ...