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Army has been deployed to support instrumentality and bid successful violence-hit West Karbi Anglong territory of Assam, Director General of Police Harmeet Singh said connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).
Speaking to reporters astatine the worst-hit Kheroni area, Mr. Singh appealed to the radical not to indulge successful unit and asked assemblage elders to marque "misguided" youths recognize that problems tin beryllium solved lone done dialogue.
"Army columns person reached here, and they person marched done these areas. The concern is wholly nether power now," helium said.
The constabulary are investigating the unit that happened implicit the past 2 days, helium said.
"We volition apprehension the culprits. Let the concern stabilise first," helium added.
Two persons were killed, and 45 others, including 38 constabulary personnel, injured arsenic unit rocked West Karbi Anglong district.
Agitators from the Karbi assemblage had been connected a hunger onslaught for the past 15 days, demanding the eviction of alleged amerciable settlers, who mostly hail from Bihar, from Village Grazing Reserve (VGR) and Professional Grazing Reserve (PGR) lands successful tribal belts.
They went connected a rampage connected Monday (December 23, 2025) aft constabulary took distant 3 agitators from the protestation tract successful the aboriginal hours, a determination which the medication aboriginal claimed was for their hospitalisation.
