Niutpal Bora is a journalist working for News 18 Assam East and Nava Baruah is a journalist working at NKTV. On November 09, 2024, the two journalists were covering a story of firing incident at Muri Puthikhati area under Samaguri police station. The journalist was attacked by a group of congress party supporters and they damaged the video camera belonging to the journalist.

The attack has sparked widespread outrage by the journalist across Assam, the journalist Union of Assam and All Assam Journalist Union condemned the attacked and demanded immediate arrest of the attackers. The journalist registered an FIR in Smaguri police station and on 11.11.2024 Samaguri police arrested one attacker Taher Uddin while others attackers fled away. We urgently appeal to you to exercise Section 12 (a) of the Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2019 and take suo moto cognizance of this incident and initiate an independent inquiry through NHRC’s investigation wing. The incident has been reported widely in the media.