SILCHAR: Workers of at least 18 tea gardens of Chatla Valley in Cachar district put up a blockade at Dorgakona near Assam University on Friday, bringing traffic on the busy Silchar-Hailakandi Road to a standstill. The workers were demanding immediate recovery of Rambha Bakti alias Neha (20), the prime suspect in the abduction of a two-year-old girl from the residential complex of Assam University on June 5.Shubhomita Roy Chaudhury alias Trisha (2), the daughter of a faculty of the central varsity, was recovered from Meghalaya on June 10. It is suspected that the family's housemaid, Neha, who hails from the nearby tea community in Dorgakona, who has been missing since then, was involved in the disappearance.Both the family and the tea workers have expressed unhappiness over failure of the police to recover Neha thirteen days after going missing. The tea workers also allege that police are harassing them in the course of the investigation. Friday's stir, which began at 8.30 am, crippled traffic, with hundreds of vehicles remaining stranded on either side of the blockade. The administration deployed police at the spot to resume normal connectivity. Additional deputy commissioner (Cachar) Jitu Das and additional SP Ramandeep Kaur rushed to the area, 22 km from here, and assured the agitators that Neha would be recovered within seven days.

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