On Friday morning, over 50 Bengali Muslims boarded a boat in the Dhalpur char of Garukhuti, a village in the Sipajhar tehsil in the Darrang district of Assam, located 19 km west of district headquarters Mangaldai.
The boat would cross the Na-Nadi and reach Khuwarghat, a port that connects the char (river island) of Brahmaputra to the rest of Sipajhar.
Most of the passengers were women from Dhalpur 3 village, located in the chars. These were the same people whose homes had been uprooted by the Darrang district administration as per the Assam government instructions, first on Monday, and then on Thursday this week.
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