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NEHU Students’ Union president arrested for alleged assault against professor

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Shillong, April 28: President of the North Eastern Hill University Students’ Union (NEHUSU) Sandy Sohtun was arrested on Monday for his alleged involvement in the assault of an assistant professor of the university’s Hindi department.

Confirming this, East Khasi Hills Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem said that the NEHUSU has been taken into police custody following an FIR filed  by the teacher.

Asked, the SP said that investigation has started and all those involved in the assault incident will be arrested.

The incident took place on April 24.

Assistant professor Hindi department Dr Alok Singh said in his FIR submitted before the Officer Incharge Mawkynroh outpost on April 25: “I am deeply saddened to inform you that on April 24, at around 4.45pm, the president of NEHUSU, along with five accomplices, forcibly locked me inside my chamber in the department.
During this incident, they physically assaulted me and threatened to kill me by holding a scissor to my neck.”

The FIR has also mentioned five others who were involved in assaulting the teacher.

Speaking to reporters during a protest staged  by the teaching fraternity on Friday, Dr Alok Singh while narrating the incident said, “NEHUSU president and five other students came to my chamber and closed the door. I asked what happened, he said sit down and don’t speak while two others were holding my hands and were continuously beating me from my head, hands and legs.”

“When I asked what the matter was, they said I was doing politics. But I had not done anything wrong. This incident had really affected me mentally and physically. Therefore, I pray for justice and for my safety and security,” he had added.

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