North Lakhimpur, Nov. 13 -- Assam's Lakhimpur district revenue department carried out a major eviction drive on Friday at Bogeenadi PGR under Kadam Revenue Circle.

Officials demolished houses and other structures, including a mosque, amid protests and distress among affected families.

A team of revenue officials, accompanied by a large contingent of security personnel, began the operation in Muslim Camp of Bogeenadi PGR in the morning. The area is near Bogeenadi Weekly Haat and Bogeenadi Police Station.

The drive targeted families who had been settled there by the district administration following the 1983 violence at Bhimpora-Bodhakora during the Assam Agitation.

One of those made homeless was 73-year-old Manik Ali, a local BJP leade...