Guwahati : A retired school principal in Assam’s Cachar district was detained on Tuesday for allegedly trying to “politicise” the Delhi blast by a social media post, police said.

The police took suo motu cognisance of the matter and summoned Nazrul Islam Barbhuiyan for questioning, Cachar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Partha Protim Das said.

A resident of the Rongpur area in Silchar town, Barbhuiyan was initially taken to the Silchar Sadar Police Station and later to the office of the SSP for interrogation, the police said.

Barbhuiyan, who retired as the principal of Banskandi NMHS School in Cachar, had posted “elections are coming ahead”, while commenting on the Delhi blast, Das said.

The police claimed that the comment was made to “politicise” an incident linked to nationa

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