A political leader-cum-businessman was on Saturday arrested by police in the city for harassing and physically assaulting two sisters. Police said Nandlal Kishore Soni, who reportedly claims to be the Shiv Sena chief of Kamrup Metro district, entered a jewellery shop in the Fancy Bazar locality in the afternoon and assaulted the two girls, aged 21 and 19, respectively. ...
07:55 PM, Jan 12, 2013
While the main accused, Amar Jyoti Kalita, has been jailed for two years, others have been awarded one-year imprisonment. ...
10:10 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Eleven out of the 15 accused in the horrific July 2012 molestation case in Guwahati were convicted by the CJM court on Friday. Those convicted included the prime accused Amar Jyoti Kalita who was seen in the footage of the incident, filmed by a local television journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog, leading the maddened mob. NewsLive journalist Neog, who was made one of the accused in the case, was, however, acquitted...
04:54 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Guwahati: Thirteen persons, accused of molesting a girl outside a bar in Guwahati, have been granted bail by a court. The Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate on Tuesday granted bail to Nabajyoti Baruah, Jitumoni Deka, Nabajit Deka, Dipak Deb, Puspendra Das, Dhanraj Basfor, Rubul Ali, Hafizuddin, Sikandar Basfor, Diganta Basumatary, Debo Das, Rupkanta Kalita and Ghanashyam Malik. While prime accused, Amarjyoti Kalita's, bail application was pending before the Gauhati High Court...
02:37 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Guwahati: The last accused in Guwahati molestation case of July 9 has surrendered. The police said the last accused in the case, Sikandar Basfore, gave himself up late last evening at Bhangagarh police station here. With this all the 17 accused in the case have been arrested by the police. Basfore will be produced before the court later on Saturday and the police would seek his custody, sources said. Of...
12:18 PM, Aug 18, 2012
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...
08:19 PM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: Amar Jyoti Kalita, the prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case, is expected to be produced in a court in Guwahati on Thursday. He was nabbed in Varanasi on July 23 after being on the run for 2 weeks. He was handed over to Assam police on transit remand. Earlier, Kalita was on Wednesday brought back to Guwahati from Varanasi by a special investigation team of Assam police....
09:13 AM, 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: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that he was "very happy" that all the accused in the Guwahati molestation incident had been arrested. "We have dealt with the case very firmly," he added. Key accused in the case, Amar Jyoti Kalita, was arrested on Monday evening in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita had reportedly surrendered at the Varanasi police station after reportedly having a word with the...
10:27 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: 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. For days he was just a series of pictures and a grinning symbol of the ugliest molestation...
07:48 AM, Jul 24, 2012
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10:29 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Varanasi/Guwahati: 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. Kalita reportedly surrendered at the Banaras Hindu University Police Chowki in Varanasi on Tuesday. DIG Varanasi Satish Ganesh said that a man claiming to be Kalita surrendered before the police...
09:48 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Varanasi/ Guwahati: Amar Jyoti Kalita, the prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case, has been arrested in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita reportedly surrendered at the Banaras Hindu University Police Chowki in Varanasi on Tuesday. DIG Varanasi Satish Ganesh said that a man claiming to be Kalita surrendered before the police on Monday afternoon. Ganesh said that Uttar Pradesh Police have contacted their counterparts in Assam to identify and verify the...
05:22 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Kolkata: The prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case, Amar Jyoti Kalita, has been traced, according to sources. Sources say that a CCTV camera has captured Kalita in Howrah. The Assam Police is likely to announce a reward for any information on him. Sources say the CCTV footage of Kalita was recorded three days back in Howrah. The police had earlier claimed that Kalita had fled to Odisha in the...
11:07 AM, Jul 23, 2012
In the aftermath of the Guwahati molestation incident, CPM leader Brinda Karat criticised the National Commission for Women (NCW) for revealing the name of the victim and mishandling the whole issue. She also said that the government is soft on acting against honour related crimes perhaps because of the vote bank politics. "Because these so called Khap panchayat produce votes, where they need them," said Karat. Below is the full...
10:28 PM, Jul 22, 2012
In the aftermath of the Guwahati molestation incident, CPM leader Brinda Karat has blamed Home Minister P Chidambaram for failing to modernise laws for safety of women, saying that he has been so involved in vote-bank politics as to be insensitive to crimes against women. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the CPM politburo member criticised the way the UPA government had handled issues concerning women's security. Below is...
08:04 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Guwahati: A Guwahati court on Saturday remanded Gaurav Jyoti Neog, the TV channel reporter arrested on the charge of instigating an attack on a teenaged girl who was molested in the capital city of Assam, to three days of police custody. Neog, the reporter of city-based Live News channel, was remanded to custody by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup Siddhartha Pratim Moitra. He was arrested on Friday...
07:43 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Indore: 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. "When we accept traditions in this country, we will then see its positive effects. I always request women to have a respectful character, respectful attitude,...
11:44 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Guwahati: 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. Neog has been booked under 11 counts including intention to insult the modesty of a woman, obscene act and disturbing public tranquility. Recently Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi had accused Neog of...
06:55 AM, Jul 21, 2012
The gunman opened fire in a theater playing the latest Batman film, killing 12 people including children. ...
09:54 PM, Jul 20, 2012
