Federal detectives are due to visit
violence-affected areas in India's Assam state, where 77 people have died.
The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) will be probing whether there was any "conspiracy" behind the
violence.
More than 300,000 people have fled
their homes after fighting between indigenous Bodo tribes and Muslim settlers
in Kokrajhar and Chirang.
There has been tension between
indigenous groups and Muslim Bengali migrants in Assam for many years.
Federal Home Minister Sushilkumar
Shinde said the CBI - India's leading investigation agency - will "take
over certain cases [of violence] where conspiracy seems to be involved for
investigation".
Meanwhile senior Assam police
official AP Rout told the state-run Doordarshan News that the situation in the
violence-hit districts was "under control" and no fresh incidents had
been reported.
The army is conducting peace marches
in the affected areas, he said.
Police say that the clashes began
last month when unidentified men killed four youths in Kokrajhar, an area
dominated by the Bodo tribe.
They say that armed Bodos attacked
Muslims in retaliation, suspecting they were behind the killings.
Soon afterwards unidentified groups
set houses, schools and vehicles ablaze, police said, firing indiscriminately
from automatic weapons in populated areas.
Courtesy : BBC News
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