Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has made an attraction to all criminals “to keep away from encounters”, asking them to lift their fingers on seeing the police or wave a white flag.
He was replying to the ‘Movement of Thanks’ on the governor’s tackle to the price range session of the fifteenth Assam legislative meeting Wednesday. Encounters, Sarma mentioned, “usually are not premeditated”. Criminals, together with drug smugglers, ought to be sensitised on how the Assam Police has advanced, and what ought to be executed when caught, he added.
“The police will wield a revolver solely when one other provokes. Criminals ought to know that Assam Police has modified — should you wield a pistol, they may reply with one too. The drug smugglers ought to increase their fingers instantly when caught and their consignment is seized. There’s no appeasement politics right here, however bullets can be answered with a barrage of bullets.”
Posting his speech on Twitter, the chief minister wrote that “the onus of not going through an encounter is on criminals, not police”.
The onus of not going through an encounter is on criminals, not police. Criminals should give up to police.@assampolice pic.twitter.com/ScCcFQVh0u
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) March 15, 2023
In a written reply to a query by All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) MLA Ashraful Hussain Monday, Sarma had mentioned that from 10 Might 2021 to twenty-eight February 2023, 35 folks had died in gunfights with police throughout totally different districts, and 12 injured. In the identical interval, he added, 26 accused had been killed in police firing and 146 injured. 5 others have been killed in accidents whereas making an attempt to flee police custody, he mentioned.
Within the meeting Wednesday, Sarma additionally mentioned that crime in opposition to ladies had come down, however “each motion needs to be as per regulation”.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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