New Delhi: After nearly 12 hours of detention, the Assam police after midnight on Wednesday (March 26) arrested senior digital media journalist Dilwar Hussain Mozumder in Guwahati under different charges, including violating the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, his family told The Wire.
Significantly, on Tuesday afternoon, the Assam police had asked Mozumder, chief reporter with the Guwahati-based web portal The CrossCurrent, to report to the city’s Pan Bazar police station as he was covering a protest held by the youth wing of the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) regional party.
The protest was against an alleged recruitment scam in a cooperative bank of which chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is director and BJP MLA Biswajit Phukan its chairman.
Upon his arrival at the police station, a short distance away from the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank – the site of the opposition party’s protest – Mozumder was detained.
Soon after, he said in a Facebook upload that he was detained for asking questions to the bank’s managing director (MD) Dambaru Saikia about the alleged scam.
For some time, Mozumder, an intrepid journalist, has been reporting on the allegations made against the bank’s authorities.
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