Overview
- Cachar Police took suo motu cognisance and summoned Nazrul Islam Barbhuiyan, a retired principal from Silchar, for questioning on Tuesday.
- Barbhuiyan allegedly commented on a Facebook post about the incident that “elections are coming ahead,” which officials said attempted to give it a political angle.
- SSP Partha Protim Das said investigators are probing whether there was any particular motive and that the detention is meant to verify intent and possible impact.
- Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma directed the DGP to identify and investigate accounts that appeared to support the blast and warned those from Assam would be arrested.
- Police said social media reactions tied to the case will remain under surveillance following the blast near Red Fort that killed about a dozen people and injured more than 20.