After Salmara incident, another Assam bureaucrat now manhandled in Cachar

March 11: In less than a week after an incident which happened at South Salmara district,  where election officer and executive magistrate , Bibhas Medhi was reportedly slapped by an officer-in-charge of Satgaon police station, Pranjit Lahakar, yet another Assam bureaucrat was manhandled by a violent mob in Sonai constituency of Cachar district on Thursday afternoon.

It is learnt that the a no-confidence motion was moved which resulted in vote at Sonai Block Development office on Thursday against the GP president of Swadhinbazar Gaon Panchayat.

A group of seven members of the GP attended the voting ceremony. After the voting, a heated situation arose regarding the voting of one group member. The situation went out of control and a scuffle broke out in the office.

Few people at that time also manhandled BDO, Sonai, Hussain Mohammad Mobin and official documents were also snatched and torn. Few police officials in duty were also injured in the incident.

“The incident that happened yesterday at Sonai Development Block office is really unfortunate. This kind of things demoralise the honest officers who are working tirelessly for the development of the area. Vandalism of this kind not only leads to physical injury but also creates psychological impact in the minds of general public and the staff,” BDO Hussain Mohammad said.

He informed that the incident has been informed to Cachar administration and further action will be followed after DC’s direction.

Meanwhile, Sonai police has apprehended three accused, who were identified as Ekbal Ahmed Laskar, Zahir Ahmed Laskar and Tahir Ahamed Laskar for manhandling the BDO. Further investigation.