Suicide over fear of detention camp for son
A rickshaw puller allegedly hanged himself here on Saturday afternoon apparently out of panic that his son could be sent to a detention camp because of his faulty identity proofs.
Family members found Sambhu Charan Nath, 55, hanging at a cowshed and rushed him to Tehatta subdivisional hospital where he was declared dead.
His younger son Prasenjit Nath, 28, submitted a letter to Tehatta police, alleging that the amended citizenship act had driven him to suicide.…
SEE ALSO:
- Assam told to free non-Muslims from detention camps: MoS in Lok Sabha (Feb 5, 2020, Times of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/73958268.cms - Yatra against CAA-NPR-NRC: From Delhi to Assam’s Goalpara detention centre (Feb 7, 2020, Sabrang India)
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/yatra-against-caa-npr-nrc-delhi-assams-goalpara-detention-centre - Survey to segregate Assamese Muslims from Bangladeshis (Feb 9, 2020, Times of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/74037073.cms - As PM Modi Lands in Assam, Official Twitter Handles Go on Publicity Overdrive (Feb 7, 2020, The Wire)
https://thewire.in/politics/modi-assam-visit-twitter
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