An FIR was registered with the Assam CID in October last year on the basis of a complaint from businessman Kamal Sabharwal, alleging that his company was paid only Rs 4.43 crore in return for delivering goods worth Rs 63 crore against work orders that the company believed were issued by the Assam government
According to Guwahati Commissioner of Police Diganta Barah, this crackdown is “only the tip of the iceberg” of a complex operation, which mostly targeted people in North America.
Currently, there are eight districts of Assam which are under the jurisdiction of “disturbed areas” under the AFSPA: Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao.