In a shocking incident, a group of villagers of a remote village in Assam's Sonitpur district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border physically tortured four fellow villagers and branded them as practising witchcraft, police said on Tuesday.
4-5 days before, a decomposed body of a woman was found near the Changsari area in Kamrup district. Following this, a team of Kamrup district police detained a Defence PRO from Tezpur with the help of Sonitpur district police and was later arrested, officials said.
More than 2000 security personnel including paramilitary, home guards, CRPF, and Assam police have been deployed in the area to avoid any untoward incident during the course of anti-encroachment drive which is going to continue till Thursday, starting Tuesday.
The Assam government on Thursday announced its decision to extend the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) area by including 60 more villages of five assembly constituencies of Sonitpur district.
The Assam government on Thursday announced the inclusion of 60 villages from five constituencies of Sonitpur district with 80 per cent Bodo people in the BTR.