The arrested accused has been identified as Hitesh Basumatary and was a former Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) MLA from the Mushalpur constituency in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).
The deceased has been identified as Bahar Ali.
The day is marked as ‘Black Day’ in the history of the state.
The city police were carrying out another search operation at his Guwahati residence in the Kahilipara locality
Assam is home to around 5,719 Asian elephants, the second highest elephant population across the country.
Both have been trapped and were caught while accepting demanded money for regularising a forest case, said the official.
Sarma also laid the foundation for infrastructure development of burial ground under the Special Infrastructure Development Project for Rs. 10 crores.
POSCO Court Judge, Joydeb Koch convicted Sharidul Islam of village Gossaigaon for sexually assaulting the girl in July 2019.
The deceased has been identified as Manwara Bibi, a resident of the Haraputa area in Gossaigaon
In separate operation by Kokrajhar police, the ganja was recovered from a secret chamber of a vehicle.
