Nalbari assault accused shot lifeless in encounter, former Assam minister calls case ‘love jihad’ | India Information
4 min learnGuwahatiJun 1, 2026 08:39 PM IST
Inside 24 hours of a 20-year-old All Assam College students’ Union member being killed and his 17-year-old cousin critically injured in an assault that has shaken Assam, the accused was killed in an encounter in Nalbari district Monday afternoon.
In response to police, the deceased accused, a Muslim youth, was additionally doubtless an adolescent however that particulars of his identification are but to be ascertained. Nalbari SSP Bibekananda Das stated that the household of the injured teenage lady have alleged that the accused had been making an attempt to pursue her romantically.
“The accused was from a village neighbouring that of the victims. Nevertheless, there was no person in his household’s residence they usually appear to have fled after the incident. So, we’re not sure about his actual age, however it’s more likely to be both 17 or 18. The sufferer lady’s mom has alleged that he would name her and message, and was making an attempt to get her to be his boyfriend however that she had rejected him. She has alleged that he had threatened her due to this,” stated SSP Das.
The lady, who’s the next secondary pupil and her cousin, Madhurjya Barman, who was a district stage workplace bearer for the AASU, had been travelling collectively in a two-wheeler once they had been assaulted on Sunday night. Whereas Barman succumbed to his accidents, his cousin was despatched to the district hospital for therapy and was subsequently transferred to the Gauhati Medical Faculty and Hospital.
GMCH Superintendent Dr Devajit Choudhury stated that she has sustained accidents from a pointy weapon in a number of locations together with her scalp, neck, again and arms. He added that she is in post-traumatic shock and is being handled within the basic ICU.
“We bought details about the incident at round 8 pm on Sunday. That they had gone to purchase books collectively, and it seems that that they had been stopped on an empty highway when there weren’t many homes, and that’s the place they had been attacked. We had been on the lookout for the accused, who had been named by the injured lady, since final night time and had carried out a number of raids,” stated SSP Das.
He stated that Monday, they acquired info that the accused was hiding in a char (riverine island) space and went there to apprehend him.
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“After our crew apprehended him there, he was main them to the machete which he had used within the assault. At the moment, he snatched an SLR rifle from one of many personnel and fired 4-5 rounds on the police crew, in retaliation to which they too opened hearth at him. No police had been injured within the incident, however he died,” he stated.
The assault on the cousins had triggered outrage in Nalbari district, with the native AASU taking out a protest Monday demanding that the accused be arrested. Within the midst of the infected environment, Nalbari MLA and cupboard minister within the final NDA authorities Jayanta Malla Baruah termed the assault “love jihad”.
“’Love jihad’ is a power social problem that’s slowly spreading its roots in Assam. As a society, we should stay alert, conscious and united towards any try to take advantage of, deceive or goal our daughters and disrupt social concord. I recognize the swift and decisive motion taken by Assam Police within the Nalbari case. Their immediate response sends a transparent message that those that commit such crimes is not going to escape the regulation,” he stated.
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