Guwahati, September 3: Assam police on Tuesday night arrested a journalist in Assam's Kokrajhar district alleged involvement with National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit faction), police said on Wednesday.
In a press statement, Assam police said that, 44-year old Jaikhnong Barhma, correspondent of News Live, a satellite channel was arrested by Police from Kokrajhar town Tuesday night.
Police recovered some objectionable evidences against him.
“Jaikhnong Brahma voluntarily do the work of promoting and knowingly facilitating the violent acts of the banned organization viz. NDFB(Anti-talk faction) which compromises the national security and integrity. He is found to providing information to the extremists about the movement of security forces in advance and instigating the cadres of outfit to indulge in the violent activities like killing of innocent persons-sources or informers of the security forces, burning the vehicles on National Highways to create the fear psychosis among the masses and causing breach of public tranquility as well as to glorify the act of extremist of banned organization,” Assam police IGP Dr LR Bisnoi said.
Various organizations had condemned against the journo arrest and demanded to the Assam government to release him immediately.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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