A group of 44 workers from Jammu and Kashmir, who were travelling to Arunachal Pradesh for work, were detained at a railway station in Assam’s Tinsukia on Monday by locals claiming they were “suspicious”. Subsequently, police verified their identities and enabled them to leave.
According to Tinsukia SSP Mayank Kumar, the group of 44 men, who were identified as being from Doda and Kishtwar in J&K, had been stopped by some locals at the New Tinsukia railway station when they disembarked a train that came from Chandigarh on Monday morning.
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Visuals from the railway station showed the men seated on the road outside the railway station, while some of the locals who stopped them there could be heard saying that they want authorities to verify “whether they are from Pakistan”, and expressing fears about “doubtful people” in the aftermath of the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.
“They are skilled labourers who were being taken by a contractor to work on a power grid project in Arunachal Pradesh. Tinsukia is the point of their further travel towards their destination, and they had got off their train. However, some locals had some doubts about their identity. Police verified their identity and their documents, after which they left,” said SSP Kumar.
Assam has been on edge after last week’s blast in Delhi, in the aftermath of which the state government has launched a crackdown, arresting people for social media posts and comments that police claim express “support for terrorism”. A total of 21 people have been arrested so far in this crackdown.
