Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Home (Police) Prestone Tynsong on Tuesday asserted that while pressure groups verifying documents of labourers is permissible, any attempt or acts of torture or intimidation or assault them is unlawful.
“Of course, I have seen a number of pressure groups sometimes they went to the site and check and ultimately found out they (migrant labourers) don’t possess the required documents. So it seems what they said please go and collect and bring the documents, I think that is okay. But if the pressure groups go beyond that by threatening or by torturing them I think that law does not allowed,” Tynsong told reporters while responding to a query on the ongoing checking drive against illegal migrants.
Reiterating that the government has no objection to inter-state labourers entering Meghalaya, Tynsong stressed that the legal requirements must be strictly adhered to. “The stand of the government is very clear. Whoever trying to check the documents of our friends may be the interstate labourers coming into our state, we welcome them but at the time they need to make sure they possess the required documents as laid down by the Act from time to time,” he added.
