Bodies of three more persons kidnapped by suspected NDFB (S) militants were recovered from Beki River in Assam’s Baksa district on 13 July. “We have recovered three more bodies this morning from Beki river. We do not know the type of injuries these bodies have. The details will be known after the investigation,” Baksa Deputy Commissioner Vinod Seshan was reported as saying.
With this, the bodies of all the four kidnapped a day earlier, including two teenaged boys have been found. The first one, bearing a cut mark on the head, was recovered last evening from the river in Barpeta district. The bodies recovered on 13 July were identified to be those of Ataur Rahman (27), Rubul Amin (45) and Saddam Ali (13), while that of Bakar Ali (13) was found a day before. The family members and villagers in Barpeta district, from where the four hailed, have refused to conduct the last rites demanding that CM Tarun Gogoi visit the area to address their grievances.
SEMINAR ON BIODIVERSTY AWARENESS
Addressing a Seminar on Biodiversity Awareness by Forest Department, Chief Guest Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi, former Deputy Director, NBRI, stressed the need of protecting the Biodiversity as the religious duty of all citizens. This ecological ethics is one of the moral principles of Islam, based on Quranic Injunctions and Prophetic Sayings (Hadith), said Dr. Farooqi. In this regard, he quoted the Quranic Verse (6:38) as “There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you” and a Prophetic saying as “There is none amongst the Muslims who plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, but is regarded as a charitable gift for him (Book Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Chapter 39:).