An opposition MLA in Assam has been arrested after he said quarantine facilities and hospitals for COVID-19 patients are worse than detention centres.?
Aminul Islam, the All India United Democratic Front (AIDUF) legislator was detained after a preliminary interrogation, director-general of police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta told PTI.?
An audio clip containing a telephonic conversation, purportedly between Islam and another person, had been circulated on social media in which the lawmaker was heard talking disparagingly about quarantine facilities and hospitals.?
He purportedly said the living conditions there were worse than those at the detention centres.?
Hundreds of suspected illegal migrants, many of them Muslim, are currently lodged in the detention centres in Assam because their names were included in the updated National Register of Citizens.?
Mahanta said Aminul Islam faces a case under several sections of the IPC for criminal conspiracy and spreading disaffection between communities, among others.?
The police chief said the Assam speaker has been informed about the arrest of the MLA.