Students from the Northeast on Wednesday (December 31, 2025) staged a protest at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi demanding justice for Tripura student Anjel Chakma, who died of a stab injury in Dehradun recently.
Hundreds of students from the Northeast studying in Delhi University participated in the protest organised under the banner of Northeast Students' Society of Delhi University (NESSDU), demanding a thorough investigation into Chakma’s killing.
Tripura student death: SIT takes over probe; Dehradun police say no evidence so far of racial abuse
Chakma (24) from Unakoti district in Tripura was attacked by a group of six people when he objected to racial slurs hurled at him and his younger brother in Dehradun on December 9. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on December 26.
Dehradun police has arrested five of the six accused. One of them, Yagyaraj Awasthi, a resident of Kanchanpur district in Nepal, is absconding.
