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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026) declared that the Assam Police volition drawback Congress person Pawan Khera, adjacent from the “paatal (the netherworld)”, to find retired who gave him allegedly forged documents that maligned Mr. Sarma’s family.
At a property league connected Sunday (April 5, 2026), Mr. Khera had claimed that Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, an entrepreneur and woman of the Assam CM, held 3 overseas passports, undeclared luxury properties successful Dubai, and ammunition companies successful the United States.
After Ms. Sharma filed a archetypal accusation study (FIR) against Mr. Khera astatine the Assam constabulary transgression subdivision successful Guwahati, an Assam constabulary squad landed astatine the Congress leader’s New Delhi residence to question him, but recovered that helium was not astatine home. Reports bespeak that Mr. Khera is successful Congress-ruled Telangana, wherever the Assam constabulary squad volition request the section police’s support to transportation retired an investigation.
“Assam Police ko nahi jante hain... Pataal se bhi ukhar ke le ayega (They don’t cognize the Assam Police... they volition hunt him down adjacent from the netherworld),” Mr. Sarma told reporters successful Sivasagar.
Both the CM and his woman dismissed Mr. Khera’s claims arsenic “fabricated” and threatened to writer the Congress person wrong 48 hours, with Mr. Sarma claiming that the allegations were made with the malafide volition of vitiating the electoral atmosphere.
Congress seeks ED, CBI probes
Asked astir Mr. Khera’s allegations astatine a property league successful Guwahati, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “They person already filed an FIR against Khera. Let them probe the matter. We volition look the lawsuit arsenic it progresses. We person sought probes by the [Enforcement Directorate] ED oregon the [Central Bureau of Investigation] CBI into the allegations.”
Congress communications main Jairam Ramesh besides came to Mr. Khera’s defence, saying the deployment of a “full service of constabulary officials” to apprehension his workfellow “for asking basal questions successful the nationalist interest” proves that the Assam CM is “disturbed, desperate, and rattled.”
“This is not owed process but alternatively a witch hunt, a bully utilizing authorities machinery to muzzle and soundlessness the dependable of the Opposition that is exposing his galore achromatic deeds. Those who intimidate are the ones who are acrophobic and person overmuch to hide,” Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
Devices seized astatine Khera residence
Assam Police Deputy Commissioner (Crime) Debajit Nath, assisted by the Delhi police, had led a squad to look for Mr. Khera astatine his residence successful the Nizamuddin area. “The squad did not find him astatine his residence,” a elder Assam constabulary serviceman said. However, a hunt was carried retired and physics devices were seized. The Assam constabulary serviceman claimed that “incriminating” grounds was found.
On Monday, the Congress had petitioned the Election Commission to cancel Mr. Sarma’s candidature, alleging that helium deliberately did not notation his wife’s alleged offshore assets successful his predetermination affidavit. In the upcoming Assembly poll, the Assam CM is contesting the Jalukbari constituency, which helium has held since the 2001 election.
