Two arrested in Hailakandi for trying to murder Islamic scholar

SILCHAR: Two persons were arrested in connection with attacking an Islamic scholar and a teacher of a madrassa with a sharp weapon in Assam’s Hailakandi district.

Sources said the two called on Abdul Malik Barbhuiya (30) when he was teaching students at a private madrassa in Hailakandi town. They invited him to a religious ceremony and on that pretext took him to Jamira in southern Hailakandi, 40 km from Hailakandi town.

Sources said the two men took Abdul Malik to one Ibrahim Ali’s house in the Jamira locality. After they reached there, the two men — Kamrul Alam Choudhury and Zakaria Zaman Laskar — allegedly tried to slit Malik’s throat with a sharp weapon. Malik started screaming for help following which the men fled leaving him critically injured.

Alerted by the screams, local residents chased the accused persons and managed to catch hold of them. They were later handed over to police at Jamira police station. A team of police reached the house and sent Malik to a hospital for treatment.

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