Tezpur, Oct. 7: Police today arrested Kurshed Alom, an advocate in Upper Assam's North Lakhimpur district, for allegedly making a court affidavit declaring a Bangladeshi an Indian national.

The affidavit was made for one Sahidul Islam to be submitted along with applications for the update of the National Register of Citizens. Sahidul's father Akhtar Ali was a Bangladeshi national by birth who was deported after a court declared him as Bangladeshi recently. But as Sahidul was born at Bongalmora in Nowboicha constituency in Lakhimpur in 1988, he became an Indian citizen by birth.

The police also arrested Sahidul. Both Alom and Sahidul were produced in a Lakhimpur court today and sent to judicial custody. Alom is a resident of ward 6 of North Lakhimpur town.

Brajenjit Singha, superintendent of police of Lakhimpur, told The Telegraph that Alom had so far made four duplicate affidavits by charging Rs 2,000 for each such affidavit. Singha said during the past two months, nine foreigners were detected in Lakhimpur district who were sent to detention camps in Goalpara and Kokrajhar districts in lower Assam.