The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has expressed outrage, grief and condemnation over the brutal and racially motivated killing of Angel Chakma (24), a student from Tripura, who was allegedly assaulted, beaten and stabbed in Dehradun on December 9, 2025 and ultimately succumbed to his injuries on December 26. His brother, Micheal Chakma was also said to have been assaulted in the same incident.
In a press release on Saturday, the NSF categorically stated that the incident was not an accident nor a misunderstanding, and not an isolated one. “This was a cold-blooded racial hate crime. The only ‘crime’ of the victims was that they looked different, did not conform to the so-called Aryan racial identity and were therefore subjected to racial slurs, demeaning abuse and savage violence,” the NSF stated.
While expressing solidarity with the bereaved family and the people of Tripura, the student body pointed out that for decades, people from the North Eastern region have been systematically dehumanised, stereotyped, harassed, assaulted and killed in different parts of India. “Repeated assurances, hollow statements and cosmetic guidelines from the Government of India have failed to prevent these crimes. This incident is a direct indictment of the Indian State’s failure to protect the people of Northeast,” the release stated.
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The NSF called upon all North Eastern states, student bodies, civil society organisations and political leadership to rise as one against “this unrelenting racial violence”, urging unity to speak in one voice and resist being treated as “second-class citizens”.
The federation demanded immediate and uncompromising intervention by the Government of India and the government of Uttarakhand to ensure mental, social and physical security for students and residents from the North East in Dehradun and across the state.
Further, the NSF demanded capital punishment to the perpetrators of the “heinous and racially motivated crime” at the earliest, so as to set a clear precedence that racial violence will not be tolerated.
“Justice delayed is justice denied, and the patience of the people of the Northeast is not infinite. The NSF reiterates that we refuse to mourn silently. We refuse to accept racism as normal. We refuse to let Angel Chakma’s death be reduced to another statistic. Justice must be delivered, accountability must be fixed and racism must be confronted,” it added.
