Guwahati: A student was shot dead and more than 60 people including policemen and journalists were injured, some seriously, when a violent confrontation broke out outside the newly inaugurated Baksa District Jail at Nikashi on Wednesday.

The unrest prompted the Assam government to suspend mobile internet and data services across Baksa district for an indefinite period.

The deceased has been identified as Dipak Das (18), a student from Dumni Tea Estate in Baksa. Officials said Dipak sustained a bullet wound to the back and was declared dead after being taken to a hospital.

The clashes began when a convoy transporting five high-profile undertrial prisoners in the ongoing probe into singer Zubeen Garg’s death arrived at the jail. According to police and eyewitnesses, a large crowd — angered by the decision to keep the accused in Baksa jail — gathered at the gate, shouting slogans and demanding the prisoners be handed over to them.

Tensions escalated after a deputy superintendent of police ordered a lathi charge on protestors, which, witnesses and local leaders said, transformed a largely peaceful protest into a full-scale riot. Protestors pelted stones at security personnel and journalists, and set fire to vehicles — including a DSNG van belonging to DY 365, two........

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