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The family members accused district administration of trying to hush up the investigation in to the murder. The local media claimed that the tape, which Mr Islam was PE Coated Laminated Tape about to release, may have exposed some big names associated with syndicate of cattle smugglers.Assam Police has stepped up the security measures all over the state and directed the police forces to remain vigilant. The protestors, who shouted slogan against the government, demanded a high level probe by CBI. He was going to expose the syndicate by releasing the telephonic conversation of cattle mafia..Security sources however indicated that killing was the fall out of some business rivalry as land mafias are suspected to have been involved.

The powerful All Bodo Students Union leaders have also condemned the killing and appealed not to give any communal colour to the tragic incident.The local media claimed that Mr Islam was very vocal against the syndicate of cattle smugglers along the India-Bangladesh international border.

The angry protestors blocked national highways and other roads at various places in Bodoland Territorial Council areas and nearby districts.Meanwhile, political leaders and various students’ organisations including Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal cutting across the party line have condemned the killing of the student leader.However, Assam Director General of Police Mukesh Shahay who rushed to Kokrajhar said that they have arrested one of the culprits and picked up three others suspected to have been involved in murder.Guwahati: Tension gripped Western Assam on Wednesday following a series of protest march and rallies in protest against the gruesome murder of All Bodoland Territorial Council Minority Students Union (ABMSU) president Lafikul Islam on Tuesday at Kokrajhar.The problem compounded after the family members of the deceased minority leader refused to take the body and started protest outside Silakati Idgah field in Kokrajhar.

146, Rs 195Stories can sometimes come unexpectedly, Freny says, sharing an anecdote. I learnt it was a teargas shell. They say ‘this is my story’," she concludes. I lived with my colleague for a week, one day there was a curfew and a lockdown and we had to walk everywhere. They refute the stories imposed by the state. "I had been invited to eat at a friend’s house and while walking around the garden with the friend’s mother, her foot caught on something among the plants."My initial introduction to the Valley in 2010 was through a colleague who was living and reporting out of Srinagar. But besides this voluntary participation women were also forced to step out of the homes in the nineties and go to public spaces like police stations and army camps when their husbands or sons were picked up by security troops for interrogation and went ‘missing’. I use local transport buses and share Sumos.

The mother then told me how their home had, one day, come under heavy teargas shelling because the police wanted to pick up her husband and take him away for interrogation.. Since then I have been making visits to Kashmir every year till date."The author goes on to say, "Obviously one needs to do a lot of research and homework before going into the field but one also needs to keep a certain sensitivity in mind. "Despite the patriarchal setup, women have always been a part of the fight for freedom, and took part in street protests right from pre-independence times."Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children by Freny Manecksha Rupa Publications pp."  Although images of Kashmiri women taking to streets catch public eyes from time to time, the author points to history to show how women have always been part of Kashmir’s struggle. There’s a certain uncertainty and precariousness with which you have to handle anything related to Kashmir. You can’t march directly into someone’s house holding a tape recorder or a camera and demand answers, the way some television crew now do these days. This living with the people is what gave me a whole new perspective on life under an occupation," the Mumbai-based author shares and adds, "I try to live as close as possible with the community. The author recounts the journey of collecting stories she heard from women on suffering, trauma and resistance in Kashmir’s struggle for freedom.After witnessing a aluminum shielding tape "body count" on a friend’s Timeline on Facebook, marking the number of unarmed civilians killed in Kashmir during the year 2010, independent journalist and author Freny Manecksha was drawn towards the war torn Valley to understand political condition of the state.

A Kashmiri anthropologist friend says that perhaps telling her story is a catharsis, and that by telling their stories the women can take ownership."Freny adds, "As an outsider, a total stranger, I used to wonder why a woman would open up to me and talk about the suffering she’s been through or share so much of her life and her pain. Through extensive interviews with women from the Valley, who had faced ***ual violence from the armed forces and also those who had lost their husbands and sons in the conflict, Freny looks at a state through the lens of gender in her book, Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children. There have been interruptions like the time I got caught in the floods but, then that is just a reflection of life in the Valley.