GUWAHATI: The prime accused in the recent
lynching of two Assamese men at a remote village in
Karbi Anglong district was arrested on Wednesday.
Alphajoz Timung alias Alpha was in hiding at Belurghat village, when he was arrested by police for last Friday's crime. Timung has been accused of instigating the mob with the lie that the victims - sound engineer Nilotpal Das (29) and his friend Abhijit Nath (30), a businessman - were child-lifters and were fleeing with a girl child. Timung, a history-sheeter, has reportedly told police that the lie he came up with, was a "spur-of-the-moment" one.
"Timung told us that he first met the two youths from Guwahati at the Kangthilangso Falls. It was around 6pm and Nilotpal and Abhijit, both nature-lovers, were looking for ornamental fishes when they had an argument with Timung about their presence at the location. Timung then called up his friends and asked them to come to the waterfall," police said.
(Representative image)