Overview
- Police detained Pranab Doley in Guwahati on Sunday in connection with an FIR registered at Bokakhat on June 29 and said Bokakhat investigators will formally take him into custody.
- Police records show Doley has been booked under multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that cover criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, rioting, trespass and obstruction of public servants.
- Doley and supporters say he was taken without being shown an arrest warrant and they call the action an attempt to silence local opposition to the hotel project.
- Opposition leaders and regional groups condemned the detention, saying it risks curbing peaceful protest, while authorities have not publicly released detailed facts about the incidents that prompted the FIR.
- The dispute springs from plans for luxury hotels near Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO world-heritage rhino habitat that locals say faces displacement and damage to animal corridors if development proceeds.