Pro-Ulfa Facebook post: Student arrested from Udalgiri district

The police have arrested a 21-year-old student from Lower Assam’s Udalgiri district for allegedly supporting the proscribed Ulfa (independent) in a Facebook post.

Pramod Kalita, a fourth semester student in the arts stream from Tangla College, was arrested from his Borengabari residence on Sunday morning based on a complaint lodged by an assistant sub-inspector and was forwarded to judicial custody by afternoon on the same day, the police revealed on Monday.

Kalita is the second student to have been arrested by the police since May for allegedly professing support to the banned organisation.