In a shocking incident in Guwahati, a teenaged girl was molested, groped at and beaten up by a mob. The girl was attacked when she was returning home from a party at a city bar at the Christian Basti area. A video of the incident had now gone viral on the Internet.
The man who figured most prominently in the video that went viral showing a mob molesting a teenaged girl in Guwahati was finally arrested after being on the run for two weeks. Amar Jyoti Kalita surrendered on Monday. CNN-IBN has traced his movements across the country from the time of the incident.
In a reference to the July 10 molestation incident in Guwahati, Madhya Pradesh Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday said that the safety of women and respect accorded to them depended on how well they behaved and the dignity with which they carried themselves.
The Congress has admitted to CNN-IBN that Alka Lamba committed a grave mistake by revealing the Guwahati molestation victim's name. Activists and politicians alike are now demanding that the National Commission for Women (NCW) be reconstituted and laws be changed for dealing with molestation victims.
Atanu Bhuyan, the Editor-in-Chief of News Live, the channel that filmed the Guwahati molestation incident, resigned on Tuesday afternoon. He stuck to his defence of filming the incident and thanked the cameraperson for doing so.
After a major faux pas by the National Commission for Women, which revealed the name of the victim of the Guwahati mob molestation incident at a press briefing, it was the turn of the Assam government to repeat the blunder.
On the run for two weeks, Amar Jyoti Kalita, who was filmed leading a mob of 50 in molesting a young woman in Guwahati, was on Monday arrested in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh following a tip-off from Assam police.
In a dramatic twist in the Guwahati molestation case, the journalist of NewsLive TV, Gaurav Jyoti Neog, was arrested on Friday evening. Neog was at the spot at the time of the incident and had recorded it.
Five more people have been arrested in connection with the molestation of a teenager outside a pub in Guwahati. This takes the total number of arrests so far to 11. However, the main suspect, Amar Jyoti Kalita, spotted in a red jersey in the video of the incident, is still absconding.
It's been a week since a teenaged was molested and assaulted by a mob outside a pub in Guwahati. Only six suspects have been rounded up and arrested so far. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's deadline to the police to arrest all the accused, identified in the video, ends on Monday.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, on Sunday took out a protest rally through the streets of Guwahati demanding exemplary punishment to the culprits of the July 9 incident of molestation of a teenage girl on the streets of Guwahati.
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A National Commission for Women (NCW) team which visited Guwahati to probe the molestation of a 17-year-old girl has blamed the police in its report for reacting late and being negligent to the incident, sources said.
Private news channel reporter Gaurav Jyoti Neog, blamed by Team Anna member and RTI activist Akhil Gogoi for allegedly instigating the mob to molest the teenage girl here, has resigned from his job on Sunday.
The electronic media in Assam on Sunday demanded a high-level probe into the allegations by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi against a local news channel scribe of instigating the molestation of a girl by anti-social elements in the city causing public outcry.
Odisha police mounted a search operation and sounded an alert following reports that one of the accused in the Guwahati molestation case Amar Jyoti Kalita was in the city but he remained untraced so far.
Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi-led Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti on Sunday demanded action against a city-based private channel which aired the video of the molestation of the girl on July 9.
Six days after the dignity of a young girl of 17 was shattered and ripped apart in full public view by a mob of around 20 men at a busy road in Guwahati on Monday, the state police has managed to arrest only four of the accused till Sunday morning.
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday termed the molestation of a teenaged girl in Guwahati as 'despicable and disgusting'.
While questions are being raised on the onlookers and the cameraperson who filmed the molestation of a teenaged girl in Guwahati, there is one man who tried to save the girl and also called the police after the cameraperson shooting the incident did. Senior journalist Mukul Kalita, who saved the girl from the molestors said there were around 50 people
The Assam Police on Sunday arrested two more persons in connection with the mob molestation incident. It also suspended a sub-inspector in the case.
A journalist who filmed the molestation of a girl in Guwahati on Monday night had 'instigated' it, alleged RTI activist Akhil Gogoi on Saturday drawing condemnation from scribe bodies, but the news channel denied it as 'baseless'.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday set a 48 hour deadline for the state police to nab the culprits in the horrific public molestation of a minor at a busy road in Guwahati on Monday night for full 30 minutes by a mob of around 20 men.
After the dignity of a young girl of 17 was shattered and ripped apart in full public view by a mob of around 20 men at a busy road in the capital city of Assam, the state police has managed to arrest only 4 of the accused.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has finally reacted to the Guwahati incident where a 17-year-old girl was molested in full public view by a mob, saying he has asked the police to take immediate action in the case.
The Guwahati molestation incident has sparked outrage across the country and Twitter is also full with tweets denouncing the reprehensible act.
Five days after a teenaged girl was molested by a mob in Guwahati, 9 of the accused are still on the run. The police have been able to arrest only four of the 13 men identified from the video of the incident so far. This even as Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi appointed a special task force to look into
Five days after a teenaged girl was molested by a mob in Guwahati, nine of the 13 accused are still roaming free. The police have been able to arrest only four people so far.
At least nine of the thirteen men identified by the Assam Police from the video footage of Guwahati's heinous molestation incident are still roaming scot-free with only four men having been arrested, almost four days after the horrific incident. The atrocious crime has sent shock waves across the entire country with people, politicians and protesters demanding strict action.
The atrocious incident of a teenaged girl being molested in full public view by a mob of around 20 men at a busy road in Guwahati has outraged the entire country with Home Minister P Chidambaram exhorting the state government to take action.
One more youth has been arrested on the charge of stripping and molesting a girl in a busy area in Guwahati while 12 others involved in the incident have been identified.
A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men. The girl was returning home after a party at a city bar.
Three youths have been arrested on the charge of molesting a girl in a busy area here even as Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said the incident should not have allowed to take place in a public place.
A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday called for action by the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam in the Guwahati molestation case. ' I would expect the state government to take action,' Chidambaram said.
The editor of the channel that filmed the crime defended the decision of the cameramen to not intervene saying that had they not shot the incident, the molesters would have been roaming scot-free.
A teenaged girl was pulled by her hair, lifted up, thrown down, beaten up, thrashed, molested, groped, slapped and stripped in full public view for 30 minutes on Monday night at a busy road near the Christian Basti area in Guwahati by a mob of around 20 men. The victim had gone to celebrate her friend's birthday at a bar
In a shocking incident in Guwahati, a teenaged girl was molested, groped at and beaten up by a mob. The girl was attacked when she was returning home from a party at a city bar at the Christian Basti area.
