Darrang : Since last 2 days the Assam Evicition Drive is in news. Earlier we have seen 2 videos of police beating people and Photographer Bijoy Bania mercilessly stomping dead body of Mounil Haque went viral on social media. Now a 12 year old kid was killed in clases.
Shakh Farid a 12-year-old young man had gone to collect his Aadhar card from post office was one among the two civilians who were killed in the anti-encroachment drive in Assam’s Darrang district which turned a brutal clash between police and people protesting evicition.
Shakh, was returning from the post office after collecting his Aadhar Card. On his way back, he got stuck in the Assam uproar. Since July he had been called several times at the local post office to collect his Aadhar Card said one of his family members.
Nearly 800 families were evicted in the drive against encroachments at Dholpur on Monday. The state wants to repossess 4,500 bighas of government land for an agricultural project.
Farid’s family claims it is yet to receive eviction notice. He was the youngest one out of four siblings.
Farid’s house is hardly two kilometres away from the place where the battle between the villagers and police took place and he was killed on Thursday.
Police said that the locals had attacked them with stones and hence they had to use forces.
Rafiqul Islam, a family relative said, “While returning he saw lot of people in the protest, he stood there as bystander and when police opened fire he was hit. The police fired at him from the front; he took a bullet in his chest and died on the spot.”
Referring to the site of masscares of Hindus and Muslims in 1983 during Assam’s anti-forieigners the CM Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma said that such situations are not new for Assam.
CM Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma also said that for last 2 month disscusions were on with the members of All Assam Miniority Students Union and they had aggreed for a peaceful relocation on the land given by the government. the police had gone to evicit 60 households but howcome 10,000 people gathered there armed with lathis?
11 people including 3 policemen were injured and are being treated at Guwathi Medical College and Hospital.
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