108 Meghalaya assists abducted girl in Nagaland : A distress call from Dimapur, Nagaland landed in the Emergency Response Centre (ERC) of GVK EMRI – Meghalaya on July 16 at 2:44 am. The caller, a young female who was the victim, herself informed that she was being kidnapped by a person known to her. With an excuse of taking her home, the perpetrator instead took her to a hotel in Dimapur. In distress and with no balance in her phone to inform her parents of the ordeal she was going through, the girl dialed 108. Emergency Response Officer (ERO), Alleans Sangma who attended to the call connected the girl to her father through a conference call. During the conference call, the victim disclosed that she was raped by the person who kidnapped her. The ERO immediately informed the Police Control Room, Shillong and they in turn helped by providing their counterpart’s contact number in Dimapur. After she had managed to escape from the hotel, the victim spotted an autorickshaw, whereby the ERO asked her to hand over the phone to the auto driver and instructed him to take her to the nearest police station. On enquiry with the Nagaland Police, they informed that the girl had been shifted to the East Town Police Station and that the kidnapper has been arrested
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:37:28 +0000