Assam Cong leader attacked
SILCHAR: A Congress leader and his brother were hospitalised in a critical condition after being attacked at their residence in Assam’s Cachar district in the wee hours today.
Police suspect the attackers were mostly slum-dwellers living near Congress leader Partha Chakrabarty’s three-storey building in Tarapur here.
Police sources said the slum-dwellers, belonging to the Kaibartya sub-caste of the Hindus, swooped down on Chakrabarty’s house, broke open the gate and the doors to his drawing room and bedroom around 4am. Read more…