Guwahati [Assam], February 17 (HBTV): The Assam Police on Monday lodged a first information report (FIR) against Pakistani national Ali Tauqueer Sheikh and unknown others for alleged anti-India activities after the state Cabinet led by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday directed police to lodge a case against him and to find whether his alleged association with Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s wife, Elizabeth Clare Gogoi, a British national, had any implications on the nation’s security and sovereignty.
Gogoi had termed the allegations and insinuations raised by Sarma and some other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders against his wife as a “slanderous campaign”, and said that they would take appropriate action against it.
The FIR against Sheikh, registered by the Assam Police’s criminal investigation department (CID), has imposed various charges against him under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act that include abetting commission of an act which would constitute an offence if committed in India, endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India, criminal conspiracy and unlawful activities.