Guwahati : Following the horrific incident as two youths beaten to death by some people in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district in the name of child abductor, Assam police has asked all district police to monitor in social media and take stern action against the people who campaigned and circulated fake messages in social media.
Assam DGP Kuladhar Saikia said that, Assam police and Assam government are concerned about the incident and taking very seriously.
“Our senior officers have gone to the area, where the incident was took place and combing operation also being done and some people who participated in crime,” Saikia said.
“The matter is very concerned about few days that, some campaign have been done in social media on alleged child abductors rooming around different places in state. Accordingly some violence incidents also happened at different places in the state,” Kuladhar Saikia said.
The top Assam cop further said that, Assam police has alerted all the district police to monitor the issue very strictly and if such type of post being going on then to take stern action against the person who circulated it.
Two youths hailing from Guwahati became victims of fake social media reports on child kidnapping (locally known as xupadhora) in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Friday night.
According to the reports, the youths were beaten to death by locals in the name of child kidnapper (xupadhora) at Panjuri Kacharigaon village near
Kangthailangso under Dokmoka police station in the hill district on Friday night.
Nilotpal Das and Abhijit Nath went for a vacation to Kangthailangso area in Karbi Anglong district on Friday.
But, in the evening, locals had suspected them to be child abductors and gheraoed their vehicle and the youths were brutally beaten up by some people.
In the video circulated in social media stated that, the youths had appealed the locals that, they are assamese, not child kidnapper. But locals hadnt listen their appeal and brutally beat them.
The locals had also damaged the vehicle used by the youths.
The youths had succumbed their injuries on spot.
Later, Dokmoka police had recovered the bodies.
The incident happened as a result of some fake news and its circulation in social media.
According to the reports, Nilotpal Das hailing from the capital city of Assam was a sound engineer and worked with various music albums, bollywood movies.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
