Three Muslims have been lynched to death and a fourth left fighting for his life in Assam‘s Nagaon district, in yet another act of mob barbarism that lays bare the terrifying reality facing Muslims in Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s Assam — just two days before the state goes to polls.
The incident took place at No. 1 Kathpara village within the jurisdiction of Ruphihat Police Station in Kalabar co-district. According to Nagaon Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Abotani Doley, at around 2 am, a gang of 10 to 12 armed dacoits entered a house, tied up the occupants, took the family’s six-year-old daughter at knifepoint, and looted cash and jewellery.
As the gang fled, the family raised an alarm, which poured the neighbours out. A crowd chased and apprehended four of the suspected dacoits, who were then badly beaten before police could reach the scene.
Two of the men died at the spot, and a third succumbed to his injuries after being rushed to Nagaon Medical College and Hospital. The fourth remains in a critical condition.
The three deceased have been identified as Saifullah, Ajibur alias Khairul, and Enamul Haque. All three were Muslim. The identity of the surviving fourth victim has not yet been officially confirmed by police.
Nagaon: A District Soaked in Muslim Blood
This is not the first time Nagaon has seen Muslim lives extinguished by mob violence, and it will not be the last if the state’s political culture remains unchanged.
Mob lynchings over cow vigilante accusations or theft suspicions in Assam have a documented history, with cases in Nagaon as far back as 2017 and in Morigaon in 2023.
Nagaon is also the very district where, in 1983, the horrific Nellie massacre claimed the lives of thousands of Bengali Muslim men, women and children — a crime for which nobody has ever been meaningfully punished.
The pattern is not coincidental. It is the outcome of decades of state-sanctioned dehumanisation of Muslims in Assam.
State That Has Declared War on Its Muslim Citizens
Monday’s killings did not occur in a isolation. It happened in a state where the Chief Minister has openly threatened to “break the backbone of Miyas.” In February 2026, the official BJP Assam X handle posted a video depicting Himanta Biswa Sarma symbolically firing a rifle at framed images of Muslim individuals — accompanied by captions reading “point-blank shot” and “No mercy” — prompting widespread condemnation and accusations of incitement to genocide.
Between May 2021, when Sarma became Chief Minister, and early 2026, more than 22,000 structures were demolished and over 20,000 Muslim families evicted — the overwhelming majority being Bengali-speaking Muslims.
Since 2016, more than 17,600 families, mostly Bengali Muslims, have been evicted, including 5,000 since June 2025 alone. Demolition drives razed 1,200 homes in Sonitpur in January 2026 and 516 in Hailakandi in February 2026.
