By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 27 Dec 2014: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs today directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take up the investigation of four cases registered by Assam police relating to the recent attacks by suspected NDFB(S) group in the two districts of Sonitpur and Kokrajhar in which a large number of people were killed.
“The Assam State Government in a letter dated December 26, 2014 had recommended that the investigation of these cases may be handed over to the NIA. Considering the gravity of the offences and relevant factors, the Central Government is of the opinion that these attacks are scheduled offences under the NIA Act, 2008 and should be probed by it,” the Home Ministry said in a statement.
In the Tuesday attack on Adivasi villages in the two districts, more than 70 people including 21 women and 18 children were killed by the Bodo militants.
