Lafiqul Islam Ahmed

All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union President

Assam

HRDA has issued an urgent appeal to the National Human Rights Commission of India on August 17 over the murder of Mr. Lafiqul Islam Ahmed at Titaguri Bazar of Kokrajhar, Assam on August 1, 2017 by two armed miscreants. Mr. Ahmed was the president of All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union and a well-known minority student leader in Assam. He was critical of the present state government for its anti-Muslim policies and interventions.

On August 1, 2017, Mr. Ahmed was in a tiles shop at Titaguri in Kokrajhar. At around 4.30 pm two armed miscreants shot at him. He died on the spot. In this firing, one staff named Mr. Subhangkar Chakravarty, sustained two bullet injuries.

He was one of the leaders who organised state-wide protests and demonstrations against the killing of Mr. Yaqub Ali in police firing on June 30, 2017 in the Goalpara district of Assam. He planned to lead a protest march on August 2, 2017, a day after his killing, against the alleged harassment faced by Muslim residents in the name of D-Voter, whereby over 10,000 people were supposed to gather in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the adjoining Chirang district in Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD).