Three people, including the president and general secretary of the Assam Miya Parishad, have been detained on charges of having links with terrorist organizations. The police gave this information on Wednesday. The development comes after the controversial ‘Miya Sangrahalaya’ set up in a house allotted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in Assam’s Goalpara district was sealed on Tuesday.
After the inauguration on Sunday, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders demanded its immediate closure and party’s Minority Morcha member Abdur Rahim Gibran lodged a complaint with Lakhipur police station against the establishment of a museum in the PMAY-allocated house.
Assam police said Miya Parishad president M Mohar Ali was caught from the museum at Dapkabhita in Goalpara district when he was sitting on a dharna, while its general secretary Abdul Baten Shaikh was detained from his residence in Alamganj in Dhubri district on Tuesday night. was taken. Tanu Dhadumiya, who inaugurated the museum on Sunday, was detained from her residence in Kawamari village in Dibrugarh, they said.
A senior Assam Police official said the three were booked under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for investigation and interrogation on charges of links with Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Ansarul Bangla Team (ABT). Under this, Nalbari has been brought in relation to a case registered in Ghogapar police station.
