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Pakistan on Friday summoned India’s Charge d’ Affaires to the ministry and conveyed its concern over the Assam eviction drive, alleging that Muslims are targeted within the State.
Two persons were killed and 20 others, including policemen, were injured when the police in Assam tried to evict encroachers at Gorukhuti and other villages under Sipajhar revenue circle in Darrang district on Thursday A shocking video showing a person slinging a camera and hitting an apparently dead soul with a bullet wound on his chest surfaced after the incident.
A public protest had erupted over the demand for rehabilitation of 800 families who had been evicted from State-owned land where that they had been living for many years .
Pakistan’s ministry said during a statement that the Indian diplomat was told that India must investigate the recent “anti-Muslim violence in Assam” and punish the perpetrators, It should also take measures to prevent such incidents from recurring in future, consistent with the statement.
The Darrang District Administration has thus far cleared 602.4 hectares of land and evicted 800 families since Monday and demolished four “illegally” constructed religious structures at Sipajhar.
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