"On Thursday, the Guwahati High Court found that the arrest of my young colleague Reetam Singh was riddled with procedural errors, evidencing the haste and illegality of the regime's efforts to throttle his voice. Reetam was targeted by the State of Assam for his social media posts but now s
Reetam Singh, the Congress war room coordinator in Assam, was detained by Assam Police from Guwahati on suspicion of spreading a fake video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
While Congress leader Jairam Ramesh condemned the arrest as an "abuse of police powers," CM Himanta Sarma defended the arrest, saying that it was related to a caste-based insult directed at a Dalit woman.