A person accused of inciting a mob to burn down a police station in central Assam’s Nagaon district died in a road ‘accident’ early on Monday morning.
The Batadrava police station was set on fire by scores on May 21 after the alleged custodial death of a fish seller, identified as 39-year-old Safiqul Islam of Salnabari area. The local administration reacted to the arson by bulldozing the houses of five people accused of involvement in the arson, claiming they had built the structures illegally on encroached land.
Nagaon’s Superintendent of Police Leena Doley told mediapersons that the accident happened in the Raidingiya area around 2.30 a.m. when Ashiqul Islam jumped out of the police vehicle he was in and was hit by another police vehicle. He was said to be the mastermind of the Batadrava police station attack.
