Guwahati: Assam Police have admitted that it was a mistake to serve a notice on behalf of a Foreigners Tribunal to a retired JCO of Indian Army.
The DGP of Assam Police, Mukesh Sahay on Tuesday informed that an investigation conducted by the Director General of Border (Police) and Superintendent of Police, Kamrup district had found out that it was a matter of mistaken identity due to similarity in the names of the retired JCO and suspected foreigner on which the notice was intended to be served.
The DGP informed that the case was initiated way back in 2008 during the previous regime in the state. The Assam police have contacted the senior Army officers and explained the matter to them.
Earlier, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal had directed Assam Police to expeditiously investigate the matter and find out the truth even as the Congress was crying hoarse about minorities being harassed during the present regime in the state over the incident.
Former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday accused the present BJP regime in state of harassing minorities and demanded action against the police officuials involved in serving notoce to the ex-JCO of the Army.
It may be mentioned that one retired JCO of India Army, Md Azmal Haque of village Kalahikhas under Boko Police Station of Kamrup district in Assam was served a notice by Assam Police, issued by at the Foreigners’ Tribunal No.2 at Boko.
The DGP informed that the notice was intended to be served on Md Azmal Haque, S/O Late Maqbool Ali, village Kalahikhas, PS Boko, District Kamrup. His wife’s name as per the case records is Mrs Mazrul Bibi, he has two sons namely Majirub Ali, Aabur Ali and one daughter Asmina Khanum.
However, the notice has been served on the retired Army JCO Md Azmal Haque S/O Mokbul Hussain whose wife’s name is Momtaz Khanam. His son’s name is Elias Hoque and daughter’s name is Sahida Parbin Yasmin.
The DGP said that it was clear that the case was registered against a different person, not against the retired Army JCO and the notice appeared to have been wrongly served on the former Army man.
“The preliminary enquiry suggests the local police could not serve the notice in the first attempt and brought it back to Boko police station. However, the retired JCO on his own, collected the notice from the police station through his brother despite the Border Police posted at Boko police station suggesting that the instant notice was perhaps not meant for him,” the DGP said.