NORTH EAST Briefs

Manipuri girl raped by relative in Gurgaon, accused held Gurgaon, September 11 (IANS): An electrician has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl from Manipur related to him by marriage, police said on Sunday. Police said the 16-year girl from Manipur, who had come to Gurgaon only two days ago, filed a complaint of sexual assault against S. Dass, who is the brother-in-law of her elder sister. DLF phase-1 police station chief Amit Kumar told IANS that accused Dass, 26, has been arrested after a case of rape and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered.   Mob attacks police team in Arunachal, 2 injured Itanagar, September 11 (PTI): Two policemen were seriously injured when a mob attacked a police team that went to Silatoo Miri village in Namsai district in search of drug peddlers, an official said today. The mob attacked the police team with machete injuring two including sub-inspector D Singpho during its raid yesterday, Additional Deputy Commissioner M K Deori said. The injured policemen were shifted to a hospital at Dibrugarh in Assam in a critical condition. The villagers also manhandled Namsai SP C K Mein and two accompanying officials who went to the spot on hearing the incident, the ADC said. Later, police reinforcement reached the spot and brought the situation under control.   Water woes plague Meghalaya SHILLONG, September 11 (TNN): Over the last few decades or so, Meghalaya has started facing 'serious problems' of surface and groundwater pollution due to indiscriminate discharge of untreated municipal effluents, industries, agricultural runoff, the latest report issued by the State Pollution Control Board said. It was also reported that in order to obtain information regarding the overall health and general environmental state of the rivers and ground-water resources in the state, the Meghalaya Pollution Control Board has been monitoring the water quality in selected water bodies under the National Water Monitoring Programme on a regular basis. "The monitoring covers 20 rivers/streams, four lakes and seven springs/wells. A total of 54 sampling locations (47 of surface water and seven of groundwater) are being monitored on a regular basis," the report read.