Youth arrested for social media post against Assam CM
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The Guwahati police have arrested a youth from north-eastern Assam’s Dhemaji district for posting a remark against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on social media.
The police stated the youth, Nipom Chutia, is a member of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti based by jailed MLA and Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi.
The youth had on May 20 uploaded the ‘objectionable’ post alleging that the Chief Minister has hyperlinks with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent. He had additionally alluded to the homicide of Manabendra Sarma, a Congress chief in 1991.
The police registered a case against the youth beneath Sections of the IPC and the Information Technology Act. He is being interrogated on the Gorchuk police station within the metropolis, officers stated.
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