Assam activist Pranab Doley, who has been opposing a proposed luxury hotel near Kaziranga National Park, was arrested on Sunday in connection with a June 28 protest against the project in Golaghat district.
Doley has been booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, criminal trespass, rioting, obstructing public servants from carrying out their duties and criminal intimidation.
The first information report was registered on the basis of a complaint by Sub-Inspector Sujib Basumatary, in-charge of the Kohora outpost under the Bokakhat police station in Golaghat district. It names 16 persons, including Doley, and around 50 unidentified persons.
The FIR alleged that Doley was the “mastermind” behind an “unlawful assembly” at Rongajan field in Kohora on June 28. Kohora is the main entry point to Kaziranga National Park.
The proposed hotel is to come up at Ingleng Pathar near the national park, where about 45 farming families depend on a 19-acre plot. Of this, 9.9...
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