Dibrugarh (Assam): A 20-year-old man allegedly involved in an inter-faith love affair was stabbed to death in Assam's Dibrugarh district and three persons, including the parents of his teenage girlfriend, were arrested in connection with the incident on Sunday, police said.
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC have been clamped in the disturbed areas to prevent any communal clash after a fringe group damaged a police vehicle and burnt a motorcycle during a protest on the National Highway-37 on Saturday.
Dibrugarh Additional Superintendent of Police Padmanabh Baruah said the man was allegedly stabbed to death and his body was thrown in the Sesa river by the father of the 14-year-old girl at Lezai area on Friday night.
"As per our information, the man was called there by the girl and he has been missing since then. His two-wheeler was recovered from a spot by the river," he added.
The body was found by National Disaster Response Force personnel on Sunday after 24 hours of continuous search in the flooded river around 3 kilometres downstream from the spot, Baruah said.