Guwahati: Protests continued to resound across Assam against the murder of Pritam Bhattacharjee, a PhD student of the state, who was robbed and killed in Bihar enroute to New Delhi for higher studies recently.
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) burnt effigies of Railway Minister Mukul Roy at Guwahati and Chabua.
The student activists staged a protest in front of the Northeast Frontier Railways headquarter at Maligaon in the city and burnt Mr Roy’s effigy.
AASU workers staged a similar protest at Chabua in eastern Assam and blocked the national highway for sometime.
They also burnt an effigy of the Railway minister. The Guwahati chapter of India Against Corruption had sat on a demonstration, demanding justice for Pritam’s family, on Friday, while the students of Gauhati University had also organized protests in the varsity campus earlier.
Pritam, hailing from Silchar in Barak Valley, had gone missing from Naugachia railway station in Bihar after he had got off from a New Delhi-bound train to register a police complaint against some goons who had stolen his bags after the railway police personnel failed to act to his first complaint.
His body was later found near an overbridge, about 10 kms from Naugachia railway station, in a mutilated state. (UNI)
