Guwahati, Sept. 11 -- Two police officers who were suspended after allegations of committing excesses on demonstrators in Assam's Dhubri district has triggered a huge row.

It has prompted the All Koch-Rajbongshi Students' Union (AKRSU) to call a 12-hour bandh on Thursday.

The bandh disturbed normal life in parts of Dhubri as the AKRSU agitated against alleged police actions on a group of people who had organized a rally in Golakganj on Wednesday evening, asking for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status and a separate state for the Koch-Rajbongshi community.

After the incident, the government suspended the officer-in-charge of Golakganj police station and "reserve-closed" the officer-in-charge of Gauripur police station.

Minister Jayanta Malla B...