A student activist associated with the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), Sahil Khan, has alleged that four police personnel assaulted him on Tuesday, in Guwahati after he participated in a women’s rights protest. According to Khan, he was on his way to collect his scooty after attending the Women’s Freedom March at Nehru Park when police personnel stopped him and demanded to see his vehicle documents. He alleges that despite producing all the required papers, he was physically assaulted.
Khan alleged that confrontation escalated even after he questioned the officers about the reason for their actions.
“I showed them all my papers. Every document was correct, yet they beat me. Four policemen held me and assaulted me,” Khan said while talking to FoEJ Media.
He said he asked the personnel why they were hitting him when he had complied with their demands and presented the necessary documents.
“I told them, ‘When everything is in order and all my papers are correct, why are you beating me?’” he said.
“They took me to the police station, grabbed me by the hair and hit me on the forehead,” he added.
Khan alleges that, instead of providing a justification for the violence, the officers questioned his participation in the demonstration. He further claimed that he was struck on his legs, taken to the Panbazaar police station, and beaten while being held by his hair.
“When I asked them why they were beating me, they said, ‘Why were you protesting?’” Khan alleged.
“They said, ‘You are Muslim. Why were you protesting?’” he added.
“I said, ‘Why shouldn’t I protest? I am doing this for the freedom of my mother and sisters.’ They replied, “Who will save you?” he said.
The alleged incident follows a Women’s Freedom March at Nehru Park in Guwahati on Tuesday. The protest brought together participants advocating women’s rights and freedom. The protest also demanded a safer place for women following the death of 20-year-old Himanshree Boro, who travelled to Visakhapatnam with an Assamese dance troupe and was returning home alone on the Kanniyakumari–Dibrugarh Vivek Express on October 6, 2026.
During the journey, she reportedly called her mother and others, saying she was frightened because several men in her coach appeared intoxicated and she felt unsafe; her phone then became unreachable. Her body was later found beside railway tracks in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district, between Dusi and Ponduru stations.
The cause of death remains unclear. Andhra Pradesh Police said the post-mortem examination ruled out physical and sexual violence, but it is yet to be established whether the fall was accidental or intentional. Investigators are examining CCTV footage, call detail records, reservation charts, and other technical evidence to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the death.
