{"id":215806,"date":"2023-05-06T01:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=215806"},"modified":"2023-05-06T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:46:43","slug":"16-arrested-over-kuki-meitei-brawl-in-mlaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/16-arrested-over-kuki-meitei-brawl-in-mlaya\/","title":{"rendered":"16 arrested over Kuki-Meitei brawl in M\u2019laya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 5 May:<\/strong> At least 16 people were arrested over a brawl between students from Kuki and Meitei communities in the Meghalaya capital, the police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They study in colleges and universities in Shillong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A group fight took place in Nongrim Hills area of Shillong between students belonging to Kuki and Meitei communities from Manipur on Thursday night,&#8221; East Khasi Hills district SP Sylvester Nongtnger told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people received minor injuries in the brawl, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police quelled the fight and took 16 people in custody, the SP added, and warned people against vitiating peace in the state capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Violence between Meiteis and tribals took place in various parts of Manipur after a rally protesting the Meitei demand for scheduled tribe tag turned violent, leading to retaliation, thus aggravating the situation. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 5 May: At least 16 people were arrested over a brawl between students from Kuki and Meitei communities in the Meghalaya capital, the police said on Friday. They study in colleges and universities in Shillong. &#8220;A group fight took place in Nongrim Hills area of Shillong between students belonging to Kuki and Meitei communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}