Police surrounded the house where Mr Doley was staying on Sunday, and took him into custody without an arrest warrant.
His arrest, which was caught on camera, comes after years of campaigning against conservation-related human rights abuses, and plans for a five-star Hyatt hotel near the notorious Kaziranga National Park — built on land Adivasi (Indigenous) people have rights to.
As he was being arrested Mr Doley, a member of the Mising Indigenous people, said: “What kind of democracy is this if we are not allowed to raise the voice of the people? The police who came to arrest me didn’t produce any arrest warrant.”
Kaziranga National Park, which Prince William and the Princess of Wales visited in 2016, has long had a reputation for violence and brutality meted out by its guards against the Indigenous people who once lived inside it, and have now been kicked out and live around its edges.
For many years it has had a shoot on sight policy, which has led to dozens of people being killed there.
