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Assam Police arrested eight people, together with an AIUDF MLA, for
feedback ‘supporting Pakistan’ after a terror assault in Pahalgam. The AIUDF chief has distanced his occasion from the MLA’s feedback.
Guwahati:
At the least eight folks have been arrested by the Assam Police as a part of an “intensified crackdown” towards people who’ve “instantly or not directly” supported Pakistan after Tuesday’s terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has mentioned.
Of the eight, six had been arrested on Friday whereas the opposite two, together with an MLA from the All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) – an opposition occasion in Assam – had been taken into custody on Thursday.
“Assam is not going to tolerate any particular person who, instantly or not directly, helps or defends Pakistan in reference to the heinous assault in Pahalgam,” Mr Sarma wrote in a publish on Friday, asserting six arrests.
As a part of its intensified crackdown on people selling anti-national sentiments, the @assampolice has made two further arrests:
•Barpeta: Md. Jarif Ali (25), also called Sharif Sing,
•Biswanath: Anil Bania, District Secretary of the Satra Mukti Sangram Parishad https://t.co/hwLlu2XfJm— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 25, 2025
Three hours later, he posted once more, stating that two others have been arrested as a part of the Assam Police’s “intensified crackdown on people selling anti-national sentiments”.
The arrested embrace two folks from Silchar and one every from Hailakandi, Morigaon, Sivasagar, Barpeta and Biswanath. Most of those folks had been arrested for social media posts after the assault
The arrested MLA, Md Aminul Islam, is from Naigaon.
Mr Islam was arrested on Thursday after he claimed that the Pulwama assault in 2019 and Tuesday’s Pahalgam assault had been “conspiracies by the federal government”.
“On the premise of a deceptive and instigating assertion by Dhing MLA, Sh Aminul Islam in public, which went viral and had potential to create an antagonistic state of affairs, NagaonPS Case 347/25 was registered for offences u/s 152/196/197(1)/113(3)/352/353 BNS. He has been arrested accordingly,” the Assam Police mentioned in a publish on X.
AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal additionally distanced the occasion from Mr Islam’s feedback.
“It was not our assertion. Now we have already cleared our assertion and in one of these state of affairs, we all the time stand with the federal government as united. The terrorists haven’t any faith and those that unfold terrorism are towards Islam. They’re defaming Islam and Muslims,” Mr Ajmal mentioned.
On Friday, Mr Islam was produced in court docket and despatched to police custody for 4 days.