GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday, while reacting to the violence in the Paikan reserve forest in the Goalpara district, in which one civilian was killed in police firing, said that action would be taken against those who launched an attack on policemen.
It has been reported that a large group of people launched an attack on the security personnel when the district administration tried to carry out an eviction exercise in the Paikan Reserve Forest to free encroached land.
Sarma told reporters here, “If anybody attacked the security personnel, action will be taken against those people. As of now, our primary aim is to free the encroached land in the Paikan Reserve Forest area.