Assam: Illegal encroachers assault police with lathis, bricks, 9 injured

Hours after an eviction drive within the Darrang district of Assam turned violent, video footage of frenzied unlawful encroachers had surfaced on social media.
The video was shared by journalist Abhijit Majumder. It confirmed that the unruly mob first approached the police with batons (lathis) and in addition pelted bricks at them. Initially, the infiltrators stood their floor with lathis in hand and tried to intimidate the cops. Minutes later, 100s of them gathered in fields and started pelting sticks, stones and bricks on the police. The cops had been left helpless and managed to cease the volley of incoming assault utilizing their hand-held shields.
In a tweet, Abhijit Majumder wrote, “This is the murderous mob of infiltrators and encroachers that the #Assam police had to deal with. This is why India needs a nationwide, watertight NRC. Nice job.” The video was additionally extensively shared by different common Twitter customers.
This is the murderous mob of infiltrators and encroachers that the #Assam police needed to take care of. This is why India wants a nationwide, watertight NRC. Nice job, ⁦@himantabiswa⁩. pic.twitter.com/G5k6c5mlYH— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) September 23, 2021
Popular Hindu activist from Assam, Oxomiya Jiyori, knowledgeable {that a} complete of 11 police personnel had been significantly injured by the unlawful encroachers throughout the eviction drive. “Human right for illegal Bangladeshi but not for them?” she tweeted. While talking to Time 8, an injured cop recounted how he was attacked by the infiltrators with stones, which left him drenched in blood.
Who will converse for the Human rights of those 11 on obligation @assampolice officers , who was significantly injured by suspected Bangladeshi encroachers, once they had been on obligation yesterday in Gorukhuti to evict encroachers frm Govt land. Human proper for unlawful Bangladeshi however not for them ? https://t.co/90PX1HRNRL pic.twitter.com/DadANkytSc— Oxomiya Jiyori 🇮🇳 (@SouleFacts) September 24, 2021
Assam police points clarification, conceded that motion was taken in self-defence
At least two folks died within the violent clashes that happened in Sipajhar within the Darrang district of Assam. According to GP Singh (Special DGP), about 8 police personnel had been injured and one among them was stated to be in essential situation. Susanta Biswas Sarma, SP (Darrang) and brother of incumbent CM, knowledgeable Indian Express, “We had gone to carry out the eviction in the morning. While it went according to plan in the first three zones, we faced some resistance in the last zone.”
He additional remarked, “In the first instance, we managed to control it. But after that, they started attacking us with stones, baahor jung (pointed edges of bamboo). One policeman was critically injured in the head.” The Darrang SP reiterated that the police acted solely in self-defence. Another police official advised the Indian Express anonymously that the assault was not simply ‘tactical’ however a ‘planned resistance.’
Eye witness Sukur Ali recounted, “I was there when the incident happened. The incident took place at Dholpur 1 and Dholpur 3 village where some people pelted stones at the security personnel who had gone there to evict the encroachers. Some villagers also attacked security personnel.” He added that the stone-pelting provoked police firing and shelling of tear gasoline shells.
Eviction drives had been a part of BJP manifesto
The eviction drive on Thursday (September 23) was performed in a Bangladeshi Muslim dominated village of Sipajhar. Chief Minister Himanata Biswa Sarma had promised in June this yr to free the land within the space from unlawful occupation. BJP had promised in its election manifesto to take encroached land again from infiltrators and hand it over to indigenous landless folks. The Assam authorities is ready to implement the ‘Garukhuti project’ within the space beneath which beforehand encroached lands could be used for afforestation and agriculture.
120 bigha land of the temple beneath encroachment of unlawful occupants within the space have been freed by @assampolice and district administration. Such squatters could be evicted from all components of Assam to guard our land and the Assamese identification from encroachers & intruders. 2/3 pic.twitter.com/ysAmxe5DLO— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 7, 2021
Sources within the Assam authorities stated that Dholpur is an space with 25000 acres of land together with a 5,000 years outdated Shiva temple and a cave. This space is going through encroachment and step by step extra persons are coming and settling there. According to the government, round 30,000 acres of land have been encroached upon by Bangladeshi immigrants. As a consequence, indigenous persons are fully devastated. This has additionally led to a rise in incidents of theft and dacoity within the space, and the locals blame the encroachers for a similar.
Given this case, the state govt has taken up the eviction initiative after discussions with native Muslims. They had been promised alternate land as per land coverage, they usually had agreed to the identical. The govt stated that the eviction drive within the final two days was peaceable, however at present 10,000 folks attacked police and in retaliation police was compelled to fireplace, inflicting the loss of life of two folks.
Viral video of photojournalist leaping on a lifeless physique is from eviction drive of September 20
Earlier on September 20, evictions drives had been performed in Dholpur 1 and Dholpur 3 villages and a complete of 4500 bighas of land was freed. In August, 200 households who’ve been illegally encroaching the land in Dholpur 3 had moved to the Guwahati High Court in opposition to the eviction discover of the Assam authorities. It was throughout the eviction drive on Monday {that a} photojournalist was seen leaping on the physique of a person shot by safety forces. The man was beforehand seen chasing the photographer with a machete in hand.
This incident is now being probed by the police, and the cameraman has been arrested. Similar eviction drives had been carried out within the month of June in Lanka (Hojai) and Jamugurihat (Sonitpur). Reportedly, Darrang is part of the Mandaldoi Lok Sabha constituency the place the anti-infiltration motion had initially begun.