Guwahati, Nov 13: The Dispur Police, on Thursday, arrested four men in connection with a protest that broke out near the Silsako wetland eviction site on Wednesday evening.

The four arrested, identified as Lalon Roy, Chamet Ali, Chan Mohammad Kurchi Alam and Phulbor Ali, were booked under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which prohibits gatherings or protests of five or more people without prior permission.

“They are expected to be produced before a magistrate soon,” an official told The Assam Tribune.

Meanwhile, several women evictees and families of the arrested have begun a sit-in outside Dispur Police Station, calling for the immediate release of the four.

“The four men they detained are not criminals or terrorists. We were protesting peacefully,” on

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