Assam MLA held for terming COVID 19 hospitals worse than detention centres

Assam police on Tuesday arrested All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) leader Aminul Islam for his 'objectionable' comments on the condition of novel coronavirus quarantine centres. An audio clip containing a telephonic conversation purportedly between Islam and another person purportedly claim the living conditions of quarantine centres were worse than those at the detention centres.

Guwahati:An Opposition MLA was arrested on Tuesday for making 'objectionable' remarks about the condition of quarantine facilities and hospitals treating COVID 19 patients, calling them worse than detention centres, police said.

Aminul Islam, the All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) legislator from Dhing constituency was apprehended early in the morning after preliminary interrogation, state police chief Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta told a news agency.

An audio clip containing a telephonic conversation purportedly between Islam and another person was doing the rounds on social media where the lawmaker was heard talking 'disparagingly' about the quarantine facilities and hospitals.

He also purportedly said the living conditions there were worse than those at the detention centres.

Hundreds of suspected illegal migrants, many of them Muslims, are lodged in the detention centres in Assam after they did not figure in the controversial updated National Register of Citizens.

"We have registered a case against him under various sections of the IPC for criminal conspiracy, spreading disaffection between communities, among others," Mahanta said.

He said the Assam Assembly Speaker has been informed about the development.

(PTI Report)