Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma had in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack earlier warned against posting anti-India comments on social media saying police will crackdown heavily on people making such statements and comments
Assam Police have so far arrested 22 persons for justifying and supporting the Pahalgam terror attack besides posting anti-India remarks on social media platforms.
Among the arrested people include AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam who was held from his residence in Dhing in Assam’s Nagaon district on Thursday following highly offensive comments he made in a video in which he linked the killings in Pahalgam and the 2019 Pulwama terror attacks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The other arrests in Assam till Sunday include Normal Hoque from Goalpara, Seikh Saroj from Baksa, Firajul Islam from Dhubri, Jarif Ali from Barpeta, Imran Hussain alias Komor Uddin from Cachar, Dadhichi Dimple alias Dimple Bora from Golaghat, Tahib Ali arrested from Baksa, Congress leader Bimal Mahato from Udalguri, Suman Mazumdar alias Bulbul Alam Majumdar from Hailakandi, Mashud Azhar from Nagaon, Baktar Hussain Barbhuiyan and Mohammad Imran Hussain Borbhuyan from Cachar, Mustak Ahmed alias Sahel from Karimganj, Anil Bania, district secretary of Satra Mukti Sangram Parishad from Behali, Jabir Hussain of Hailakandi, A.K. Bahauddin, a student from the Department of Computer Science at Assam University in Silchar, Javed Mazumder from Silchar, Mahahar Mia alias Mujihirul Islam of Morigaon and Sahil Ali of Sivasagar.
Three persons were arrested by Assam Police in the past 24 hours taking the total number of arrested persons to 22.
While a person named Normal Hoque was arrested by Goalpara Police, two others identified as Seikh Saroj and Firajul Islam were arrested by Tamulpur and Dhubri Police respectively for posting anti-India comments on social media, Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in a post on ‘X’.
The arrests came after Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma had on Thursday (April 24) cautioned people against making anti-India comments and said that Assam Police have been instructed to take strict action against anyone making offensive, insensitive and anti-India statements justifying or supporting the terror attack orchestrated by Pakistani terrorists.
