Locals in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district detained 44 individuals from Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning after finding them moving around the Tinsukia Railway Station. The group was later handed over to the Railway Police Force for verification.<\/p>\n
According to locals, the men were brought by a contractor for work in Arunachal Pradesh. \u201cThe group appeared suspicious to them in the backdrop of the recent blast in Delhi. We handed them over to Railway Police for verification,\u201d the locals were quoted by a section of media as having said.<\/p>\n
The detained group, however, said they were wage labourers who had come for transmission line work. They stated that most of them belonged to Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir and had arrived by train earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Officials said verification of the individuals was still underway. (KNT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Locals in Assam\u2019s Tinsukia district detained 44 individuals from Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning after finding them moving around the Tinsukia Railway Station. The group was later handed over to the Railway Police Force for verification. According to locals, the men were brought by a contractor for work in Arunachal Pradesh. \u201cThe group appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu"},"yoast_head":"\n