GUWAHATI, Feb 17: Less than a day after the Assam Cabinet directed the DGP of the State to lodge an FIR against Pakistan national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh over his links with Elizabeth Colburn — wife of Congress MP from Jorhat Gaurav Gogoi — following a slew of explosive allegations made by Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma against the Congress MP and his wife, Assam Police has filed a case against the Pakistani national under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
“In pursuance of the Cabinet decision taken yesterday, Assam Police has lodged an FIR and the same had been registered as CID PS Case No 05/2025 U/S 48/152/61/197(1) BNS, 2023 RW Sec.13(1) UA(P) Act against Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and unknown others,” Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in a post on his ‘X’ handle.
Meanwhile, Assam DGP Harmeet Singh said that Assam CID has already started investigations in connection with the case registered against the Pakistani national and that police will also look into whether other people were involved in the anti-India campaign of the Pakistani national.
“Yesterday itself, on receiving the Cabient’s directives, CID was instructed to file a case. Today morning, CID has filed a case u/s 48, 152, 61, 197(1) of BNS read with sec 13(1) of the UAPA against Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and unknown others. The case has been registered and the investigation has begun…It has been seen that till now the activities of the said Ali Tauqeer Sheikh are judicial to national security. He has been making utterances and it seems that his activities hurt the broader spectrum of national security. So, it has to be seen as to what exactly he has done which is suspected already and whether there are other people involved in the conspiracy with him, who were these others, are they within India, within Assam – so they will all be looked at. There can be not harm to India’s integrity, we have pledged this. CID will take the case forward like this,” news agency ANI quoted DGP Singh as saying.
The Assam Cabinet had on Sunday (Feb 16) decided not to register any case against the Congress MP or his British spouse, who the BJP has accused of having ISI links, but instructed the State DGP to file an FIR against the Pakistani national.
Chief Minister Dr Sarma also raised the issue of Gaurav Gogoi meeting Pakistan’s then Ambassador to India Abdul Basit in 2015 and a series of questions the Congress MP raised in Parliament thereafter which, Chief Minister Sarma said, were serious in nature.
