Hazarika was posted as Assistant Commissioner of Police in Chanakyapuri, Delhi, in charge of three high profile police stations during that dark period of the anti-Sikh riots that rocked the national capital. And after some time she was promoted to the position of deputy commissioner of police (crimes against women cell) in the capital. She oversaw stringent measures to cut down sexual harassment of women on the capital’s streets. In 1998, she was sent to Bosnia as part of the UN peacekeeping force for three months. It was there that she was diagnosed with leukaemia and she had to return to India. Hazarika received treatment at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai and at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences, but she succumbed to cancer on July 25, 1999. She was only 43.
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