Prohibitory orders imposed in Assam’s Kokrajhar, state’s seventh district inside per week

By PTI

KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM): Prohibitory orders had been imposed in Kokrajhar district on Sunday apprehending breach of regulation and order, making it the seventh district in Assam to be positioned beneath such restrictions inside per week.

The Additional District Magistrate clamped prohibitory order all through Kokrajhar district beneath Section 144 of CrPC in ‘view of the urgency in sustaining peace and tranquility within the district’, an order mentioned.

The order was issued ‘because it has been seen that there’s a chance of incidence of regulation and order scenario because of actions of anti-social components and agitational programmes of political events, college students’ unions and different organisations’.

Assembly of 5 or extra individuals in any public locations, processions, shouting slogans, rallies, organising melas with out acquiring permission, pillion driving, carrying and brandishing of weapons have been banned within the district.

The order will proceed to be efficient till additional order, it added. Earlier, Charaideo, Sonitpur, Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Kamrup districts imposed prohibitory orders beneath part 144 of CrPC to examine any regulation and order scenario.

Cachar and Karimganj had clamped the restrictions on June 12 following violent protests in several components of the nation over controversial remarks towards Prophet Mohammad by two former BJP leaders. The different three districts had been additionally introduced beneath the prohibitory orders through the previous week.