M laya ministers public got extortion calls Sangma

RegionalMlaya ministers public got extortion calls SangmaCorrespondent SHILLONG AUG 20 Publish Date 8202021 10439 PM ISTIn a startling revelation Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Friday said that ministers legislators businessmen and even common people in the State have received extortion demands and that comprehensive investigation in this regard was on to end this racketAll the actions and steps that you have seen in the last many weeks months and days have been done because of those messages and bomb blasts the IED blasts that took place in different locations and because of the different threats that have been there to the safety of the citizens of our state Sangma saidOn Thursday Leader of Opposition and former chief minister Mukul Sangma of the Congress had revealed that many ministers and legislators had been served with demand notes and had slammed the state government for its alleged insensitivity regarding the issue Everything that has happened in the past has been clearly the steps that have been taken to ensure that we are able to stop all of these kinds of activities that are taking place the Chief Minister saidTherefore whether it is the different arrests that have already been made different operations that have been done different investigations taking place all of it are based on inputs that we are receiving whether it is SMSs received from political leaders from businessmen from individuals from common people all these messages that have come in in terms of extortion which really what it is Its an extortion racket in one way Conrad saidThis has led to us as a government and more importantly the police department doing a large amount of investigation Large amounts of evidence documentation and proof many kinds of proofinvestigation is being really done in a lot of detailMovements of individualsdifferent kind of data I will be risking the investigation in this point of time by revealing all of that the Chief Minister said adding that steps have been taken by the police department to ensure that this comes to a stopStating that ministers and legislators also have received extortion demands Conrad said investigation on the numbers through which they had received this and other inputs from them have already been collected So yes there were cases but I dont have the exact numbers with me