Assam: 34 Arrested For Anti-India Posts On Social Media

The Assam Police have been taking strict action against individuals making seditious statements online.

Seven more people have been arrested from different parts of Assam for “defending Pakistan on Indian soil” following the Pahalgam terror attack, taking the total to 34 so far, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.

Taking to social media, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that as many as seven fresh arrests have been made across the state in this regard taking the total number of arrests to 34.

The seven persons arrested as per the CM’s social media post are Nasib Ahmed from Cachar, Ariful Ali from Chirang, Sachin Ahmed Mazumdar from Sribhumi, Mostak Rohim Ali from Kamrup, Mohammad Fulzar hussain from Lakhimpur, Furkan Ali from Sonitpur and Shuzabul Islam from South Salmara.

The Assam Police have been taking strict action against individuals making seditious statements online.
The arrests come amid heightened vigilance by authorities to maintain communal harmony following the Pahalgam terror attack.

Earlier, opposition AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam was arrested and booked on sedition charges for allegedly defending Pakistan and its complicity in the Pahalgam attack.

Islam has been remanded to judicial custody after five days of police custody.The court of the Nagaon Chief Judicial Magistrate also rejected his bail petition, remanding him to judicial custody.

On Saturday, Sarma had said that if required, provisions of the National Security Act would be imposed on the arrested.

“There are no similarities between Bharat and Pakistan. The two countries are enemy nations and we must remain like that,” the CM had told reporters.

Twenty-six people were killed after terrorists struck Baisaran in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.

Also Read: Pahalgam Terror Attack: 27 Arrested In Assam For Anti-National Comments and Posts in Social Media

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