Guwahati: Amar Jyoti Kalita, prime accused in the molestation of a girl on July 9 outside a pub, was remanded to five days police custody on Thursday. Kalita, who was arrested on July 23 in Varanasi and brought to Guwahati on Wednesday on a transit remand, was on Thursday produced amidst tight security before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate SK Moitra.
Moitra after hearing the petition of both Kalita's lawyer BD Konwar and Public Prosecutor Minoti Saikia, remanded the accused to five days police custody.
Kalita will be produced next before the Chief Judicial Magistrate on July 30.
Meanwhile, police on Thursday arrested another accused in connection with the molestation of the girl on GS Road taking the total number of those held in the case to 15....
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08:19 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Guwahati: The prime accused in the July 9 molestation case, Amar Jyoti Kalita, was on Wednesday brought back to Guwahati from Varanasi by a special investigation team of Assam police. Escorted by the police team, Kalita reached Guwahati on a flight from Kolkata at around 6 PM. Tight security arrangements were made at the airport, official sources said. Superintendent of police (Operations) Ranjan Bhuniya, who led the Assam police team...
09:47 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: A three-member team of senior editors will visit Guwahati to look into allegations about the role of mediapersons in the coverage of the molestation case that happened there last week. The Broadcast Editors' Association (BEA) said in a statement here that its team would try to find out if any journalist had actually played a part in the commissioning of the crime. It would also deliberate on the...
06:36 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: The three-member special probe team constituted by the National Commission for Women (NCW) to look into the heinous Guwahati mob molestation incident has reportedly slammed the police for its "negligent" approach towards the entire episode and exhorted the state government to deploy more women police constables in the capital. The report, that was to be submitted around 2 pm on Monday but got delayed, seeks to set a...
02:23 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: 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. Meanwhile, a sub-inspector was suspended on Sunday for failing to act swiftly. The role of the TV reporter who was covering the incident is also under the scanner. Activists have accused him...
11:16 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Bhubaneswar: 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. "We have got no trace of Kalita in Bhubaneswar or any other place of the state," Director General of Police (DGP) Prakash Mishra said, adding the police were keeping vigil. The search operation was...
10:58 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Guwahati: 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. Neog said the charges against him were 'malicious and wild'. "There are allegations levelled against me that I orchestrated the molestation on the girl on GS Road on the night on July 9. I...
07:07 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Guwahati: 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. Activists of the KMSS, India Against Corruption and Nari Mukti Sangram Samiti on Sunday took out a procession in the city and sought prompt action against the channel and one of its reporters for allegedly instigating the mob...
04:16 PM, Jul 15, 2012
One of the accused arrested by the Assam Police in connection with the Guwahati molestation incident has said he left the area soon after the ruckus started. ...
01:56 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Guwahati: 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. The total number of arrests in the case now is six. Five more remain on the run, while one is yet to be identified, according to the police. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had on Saturday set a 48-hour deadline for the police to nab...
09:27 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Activist Akhil Gogoi has alleged he suspects that News Live staged Guwahati's horrific molestation incident. ...
03:44 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: 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. The arrests are too little too late as they came four days after the incident. According the News Live, the channel...
10:35 AM, Jul 14, 2012
At 17, life is about chocolates, crushes and (sometimes) career choices. Not in that order, though! It is about getting ready to break out of ...
05:51 PM, Jul 13, 2012
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. ...
03:59 PM, Jul 13, 2012
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. The channel, that shot the incident and aired it, defends itself for doing so. ...
02:42 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Guwahati: 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. The National Commission for Women (NCW), meanwhile, has said that it will take strict action against the accused. Mamta Sharma, the Chairperson of the NCW, said,...
01:08 PM, Jul 13, 2012
People across the country are outraged at the molestation of a teenaged girl by a mob on a busy road in Guwahati. They demand justice for the teenager. ...
11:59 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Guwahati: 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. While the Assam Police has identified twelve men from...
07:36 AM, Jul 13, 2012
