Overview
- Police said unidentified persons used an excavator to pull down a 10-foot statue of Jawaharlal Nehru at Pailapool market in Cachar on Monday night.
- A case has been registered, the excavator has been seized, CCTV captured the act, and teams are working to identify those involved with no eyewitnesses found so far.
- One person has been detained in the probe, according to police quoted by PTI.
- The Congress lodged an FIR, condemned the vandalism, and questioned the public silence of BJP MLA Kaushik Rai.
- Local Congress leaders said the statue, installed in 2000 outside Nehru College founded in 1965, carries community significance, while some alleged an attempt to stoke tensions before state elections.