Dipke, who led a student agitation demanding education reforms, said he sympathised with the officers who were wounded during the protest. He added that the students who were assaulted by police should not be ignored.

4 people died while cleaning an old water tank at an under-construction house in Assam’s Cachar district on Friday. Victims Niloy Paul, Champu Paul, Debashis Paul and Nandan Paul were declared dead at SMCH. Police suspect suffocation.