Rangiya: Two forest department employees were arrested on Saturday in connection with the recovery of a skeleton, suspected to be of a missing student leader in Assam’s Kamrup (rural) district.
Police said the duo were arrested from Kukurmara area during the day in the wake of protests by a tribal student union alleging involvement of forest personnel in the murder.
The protests included burning of the effigies of chief minister and forest minister for the past two days.
The arrested duo, Tapan Das and Adit Barman, were later produced before a local court which remanded them to three days’ police custody.
The skeleton, suspectted to be of Arup Kalita (26), leader of a non-tribal student body, were recovered from a pond near the forest office of West Kamrup Forest division at Kukurmara on August one triggering tension in the area, which bordered the Bhutan border.
Kalita had been missing for nearly a year since August last. Prior to the recovery of the skeleton, the non-tribal student body had filed a writ petition in the Gauhati high court to ascertain his whereabouts. (PTI)
