Summary:
Guwahati, Jan 25 (PTI) Amidst the widespread protests against the police firing on a former student leader, alleged to be a drug peddler, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asserted that action against criminals will continue.
The police firing in Nagaon in which a former All Assam Students" Union (AASU) leader Kirti Kamal Bora was injured on Saturday will be probed and the officers concerned will be punished, if they are found to be guilty, he said.
Sarma, however, contended that police must be a friend to the common people and a "terror to culprits".
"Police action will continue against the criminals and the drug mafia.
I have instructed police to make Assam crime free in the five years of my tenure," he told reporters on the sidelines of an official function here.
The rising number of shootouts involving the force has created a political furore in the state with the opposition likening Sarma to German dictation Hitler.