Guwahati: The Assam Police has registered an FIR against a Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and others for their alleged comments on India’s internal affairs and parliamentary matters aimed at disrupting communal harmony and the nation’s interests following allegations of his close link with Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s British wife Elizabeth Colburn, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.
”In pursuance of the Cabinet decision taken yesterday, Assam Police has lodged an FIR and the same had been registered as CID PS Case No 05/2025 U/S 48/152/61/197(1) BNS, 2023 RW Sec.13(1) UA(P) Act against Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and unknown others”, the chief minister posted on ‘X’.
In pursuance of the Cabinet decision taken yesterday, Assam Police has lodged an FIR and the same had been registered as CID PS Case No 05/2025 U/S 48/152/61/197(1) BNS, 2023 RW Sec.13(1) UA(P) Act against Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and unknown others.
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) February 17, 2025
The Assam Cabinet on Sunday had decided not to register any case against the Congress MP or his British spouse, who the BJP has accused of having ISI links.
The cabinet instructed the DGP to file an FIR against Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh.
The chief minister had said the state government would write to the Centre for probing Colburn’s participation in Lok Sabha campaigns, despite being a British citizen, in the erstwhile Kaliabor constituency, which was won by Gogoi twice.
The chief minister claimed that Sheikh’s social media activity includes exhaustive commentary on India’s internal affairs and parliamentary matters, raising serious concerns on the said individual’s intention to compromise and damage India’s interests.
“The Assam Cabinet also directed an extensive inquiry to ascertain whether these activities are part of a larger conspiracy and to identify any sympathisers or associates within Assam and across India who may be aiding Sheikh’s Anti-India agenda,” an official statement from the Chief Minister’s office said.
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The inquiry may investigate Sheikh’s network within Assam and India, examine individuals, organisations and accomplices based in the country who have aided and abetted his actions against India, and seek relevant assistance and information from concerned agencies and departments of the Centre for the probe.
