The Assam police arrested MLA Aminul Islam on Thursday (April 24, 2025), a day after he remarked that the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and the 2019 Pulwama incident could be the result of a “conspiracy” by the top BJP leadership. The MLA represents the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) from central Assam’s Dhing constituency.

“Now, after the Pahalgam attack, the BJP is saying the terrorists fired at the Hindus and spared the Muslims. However, the survivors said nobody’s name was asked. They fired from darkness, secretly. I suspect the Pahalgam attack was carried out by those who had perpetrated the Pulwama attack,” the MLA said.

“If the government does not conduct an impartial probe into this incident and resort to Hindu-Muslim divisive politics, we will suspect this happened due to a conspiracy hatched by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah,” he said.

The police said Mr. Islam was arrested for his “misleading and instigating” statement in public, which went viral and had the potential to create an adverse situation. A case was registered against him at the Nagaon police station under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. One section (152) criminalises actions that endanger India’s sovereignty, unity, and integrity, another (196) criminalises the promotion of enmity between different groups based on religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, caste, or community. A third – 113(3) – deals with abetting, attempting, conspiring, or facilitating the commission of a terrorist act.