Overview
- Residents at New Tinsukia Railway Station in Assam stopped 44 men on Monday after they arrived on a train from Chandigarh.
- Police checked identities and paperwork, confirmed the men are from Doda and Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir, and allowed them to continue.
- The group told authorities they were en route to Roing, Arunachal Pradesh, for transmission and power grid work arranged by a contractor.
- Video from the scene showed locals urging checks and invoking fears linked to the November 10 Red Fort blast and questions about nationality.
- An officer said the same group had been halted in Tezpur days earlier, while disputed local reports about missing documents led to added verification.