Journalist arrested in Assam
In a press statement, the Assam police said that 44-year-old Jaikhnong Barhma was arrested from Kokrajhar town on Tuesday night.
The police recovered some objectionable evidences against him.
“Jaikhnong Brahma voluntarily do the work of promoting and knowingly facilitating the violent acts of the banned organization viz. NDFB(Anti-talk faction) which compromises the national security and integrity. He is found to provide information to the extremists about the movement of security forces in advance and instigating the cadres of outfit to indulge in the violent activities like killing of innocent persons, sources or informers of the security forces, burning the vehicles on National Highways to create the fear psychosis among the masses and causing breach of public tranquility as well as to glorify the act of extremist of the banned organization,” Assam Police IGP Dr LR Bisnoi said.
Various organizations have condemned the arrest of the journalist and demanded the Assam government to release him immediately.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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