Silchar, February 25 A statue of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was vandalized in the Cachar district of Assam, officials said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred on Monday night and Tuesday morning at the Pailapool market in the Lakhipur police station area, they said.
Police said they have detained a person and seized the excavator used to uproot the statue.
"We have not found any eyewitness to the incident. However, it was on CCTV footage that some unknown individuals were seen demolishing the statue with the help of an excavator," Lakhipur police station officer-in-charge Sankar Dayal told
