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Anti-bill protesters assault woman doctor in Assam

A member of the

Tai Ahom Yuva Parishad Asom

(TAYPA) was arrested on Sunday for assaulting a doctor in Tinsukia district of upper Assam during an

anti-citizenship bill bandh

on Saturday. Divya Singh Borthakur is an ophthalmologist at Central Hospital in

North Eastern Coalfields

.


She was attacked around 1.10pm on Saturday while she was driving home. PM Narendra Modi was in Assam on Saturday, and TAYPA had called a 12-hour bandh.

Bandh supporters pelted stones at her car and assaulted the doc- tor, leaving her with a bloodied face and injuries.
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