India, Nov. 22 -- A first information report (FIR) was registered on Friday against a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer over allegations that he threatened a journalist for his news channel's reportage of a protest involving his son, a police officer.

Bajali district's additional superintendent of police (Addl SP) Tribayan Bhuyan said the FIR was registered against Hitesh Dev Sarma under sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation and death threat), 352 (intentional insult with the intent to provoke breach of peace), and 296 (obscene acts in public places) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Pathshala police station.

Sarma retired as the state coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, in 2022.

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