Civilian abducted and subsequently killed in Assam
The Telegraph reports that body of Boda Pani Pathak, superintendent engineer
of Gauripur agriculture-engineering
department in Dhubri
District, was recovered
from Bongaigaon
District on May
3. Pathak along
with executive engineer
Faizur Islam was
abducted from Kharagpur
under Boithamari
Police Station in
the same District
on May 2. The whereabouts
of Faizur Islam
is not yet known.
Police did not rule
out the possibility
of the involvement
of militant groups
and is looking into
the involvement
of the Kamtapur
Liberation Organisation
(KLO). 
Meanwhile, Police recovered 35 rounds live bullets from a bus
at Ghagrapar under
Nalbari District,
reports The Sentinel. 
Central Government told Guwahati High Court (GHC) that “exigencies
of administration
and demand from
civil society” were
the reasons behind
its decision not
to oppose the bail
pleas of militant
leaders [Black Widow
(BW) ‘Chairman’
Jewel Garlosa and
‘Commander-in-Chief’
Niranjan Hojai]
and to expedite
the peace process,
reports The Telegraph.
Earlier, On April
26, GHC had asked
Central Government
to explain the circumstances
and grounds on which
they decided not
to object to the
bail petitions of
top leaders of BW.