Shillong: Former legislator Esmatur Mominin, who was on the run in the wake of last month’s communal disturbances that left two persons dead in West Garo Hills, surrendered before police at Nongpoh Police Station in Ri-Bhoi district on Monday.“We have registered several cases against the former legislator for inciting communal hatred and violence through inflammatory speeches under various sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Meghalaya Maintenance of Public Order Act,” West Garo Hills district SP Abraham Sangma said.Mominin, who was MLA from the Phulbari assembly constituency in the West Garo Hills, had gone ahead to file his nomination papers for contesting the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council elections at the office of the deputy commissioner in Tura on March 9, in the face of public opposition to participation of non-tribals in the tribal council. He was reportedly confronted and assaulted by protesting people, and was later rescued by the police.
