250 teachers taken into custody for blocking airport road
Asom Sikshak Karmachari Aikya Mancha activists today blocked
Airport Road linking this town at two places.
Many vehicles including that of the Indian Airlines as a consequence
were detained by the agitationists. Passengers bound for morning
flights got stranded in their vehicles which delayed the departure of
the flights to guwahati, Imphal and Kolkata by 2 hours.
Around 9 am, Additional Superintendent of police, SP Kari with huge
contingents of CRPF and police reached the spots under siege and
removed the agitations from 2 places by force took them into
custody.Around 250 Mancha activists and there supporters were lifted
in vehicles and taken to Udharbond Police Station and kept confined
there who were released later.