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CBI nabs main accused in Assam riots
Tuesday January 08, 2013 09:39:53 PM,
IANS
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Guwahati: A special CBI
team Tuesday arrested the main culprit behind last year's communal
riots in Assam's Bodo areas, which left over 100 people dead and
led to displacement of close to five lakh people, police said.
Kokrajhar Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar said the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team nabbed Moinul Haque from
Kokrajhar district for his involvement in killing four Bodo youth
July 19 last year, setting off the clash between the Bodos and the
Bengali-speaking Muslim settlers.
Haque is an office bearer of the All Bodoland Muslim Students'
Union (ABMSU) - a prominent students' body in four districts of
Kokrajhar, Baksa, Chirang and Udalguri that form the Bodoland
Territorial Areas Districts (BTAD) of Assam.
The Assam government had handed over the investigation of the
violence in BTAD to the CBI last year and a special team had been
carrying out investigations from Bongaigaon.
The CBI officials here also confirmed the arrest of Haque, but
remained tight-lipped about the details and said that the arrest
was made by a special team, which came from Delhi to investigate
the case.
Besides Haque, CBI sleuths had also arrested another eight people
last Friday for their suspected role in the violence.
After the violence last year, six people were arrested by the
investigating team for their alleged involvement in the violence.
The violence, which was first started in Kokrajhar district of
BTAD later spread to neighbouring Chirang and Dhubri districts
forcing the government to deploy the army and paramilitary forces
to contain the situation.
While close to five lakh people were displaced due to the violence
in three districts and many of them were rehabilitated, a few
thousand are still living in relief camps and are yet to be
rehabilitated.
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