Silchar: The nine-year-old alleged rape victim does not have any sign of sexual assault on her person as per the preliminary reports of the hospital where the girl is under treatment, police said on Tuesday.
"Preliminary medical tests conducted by the attending doctors at the Silchar Medical College Hospital have found no sign of rape or sexual assault on the girl, Cachar Superintendent of Police Digonta Bora said.
The final medical report of the tests carried out on the girl was, however, yet to come, Bora said. The girl is, however, out of danger, doctors said....
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02:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Silchar: A nine-year old girl was allegedly gangraped by two unidentified persons in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Monday. The nine-year old from Karimganj had gone to visit her grandfather in Pechachora village under Kallain police station of Katigora sub-division when she was kidnapped by two unidentified persons, with their faces covered, last evening, the sources said. The girl was taken to a house in Section 9 of Kallain...
02:10 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Karimganj (Assam): A 29-year-old woman died after being brutally raped and dumped by a driver in Silchar town of Assam, police said on Thursday. The woman and her husband were travelling by a private vehicle from Bolpui town of Mizoram to Lumding in Assam on Wednesday when the driver, feigning problem in the vehicle, asked the man to push it, they said. As soon as the man got off, the...
07:34 PM, Apr 04, 2013
An earthquake of moderate intensity, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, jolted India-Bangladesh border on Saturday morning. The quake struck at 7:01 am on Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. ...
08:39 AM, Mar 02, 2013
A youth allegedly tortured and severely injured a five-year-old girl in Assam's Karimganj district, police said on January 30. The five-year-old girl, who went missing on January 28 evening, was found lying in a paddy field with severe injuries near her house at Pinnagar village on January 29, Additional Superintendent of Police KK Gupta said. ...
02:50 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Karimganj: The body of Pritam Bhattacharjee, a PHD scholar from Karimganj missing since July 9, has been found in a badly mutilated condition in Bihar, police said in Karimganj on Monday. The body of the 25-year-old was found late on Sunday night near the railway track at Bhagalpur with Bihar Police saying the assailants killed Pritam and dumped his body. The scholar, who had boarded the Assam-Avadh Express from Guwahati...
04:12 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Guwahati: A Congress legislator in Assam on Friday filed an FIR against party MLA Rumi Nath alleging that she along with her second husband had illegally entered his residence and beat up visitors suspecting them to be involved in the attack on the couple last week. Police said the FIR was filed after Congress MLA Kamalakhya Purkayastha from North Karimganj constituency faxed the complaint to the Dispur police station. Purkayastha...
01:27 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Karimganj: Unidentified persons have set ablaze a temple at Maijgram in Karimganj district where Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband were beaten up by people who were angry over her remarriage, police said on Friday. The temple was set on fire late on Thursday night and the blaze was doused on Friday morning after villagers detected it, police said. Superintendent of police Pradip Pujari reached the spot for...
12:42 PM, Jul 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Assam Police on Sunday arrested five men in connection with the assault on 33-year-old Congress MLA from Borkhola, Rumi Nath. Rumi and her second husband Zakir Hussain were beaten up by a hundred-strong mob outside a Karimganj hotel, where the MLA had gone to meet her father, on Friday night. Rumi is at the centre of a bigamy row after she left her first husband Rakesh Singh...
10:44 AM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 (joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon) were imposed on Saturday in Karimganj in Assam after Congress MLA from Barak Valley Rumi Nath was beaten up by a hundred-strong mob at a hotel on Friday night. Rumi's personal life has been under the scanner since she left her first husband and two-year-old daughter and remarried. The 33-year-old MLA allegedly converted to Islam for...
05:24 PM, Jun 30, 2012
44 children have died in a civil hospital in Karimganj in Assam over two months. ...
11:44 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Karimganj: Most of the centres under the National Rural Health Mission function without even doctors in Karimganj. No treatment could save seven-year-old Ruzel in the Karimganj Civil Hospital. Ruzel's Grandfather said, "We took him at night. The doctor came after two hours. He was given an injection at night. He shrieked and died immediately." Ruzel's mother still cannot talk about her son and her loss. In the village with 400...
09:39 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Karimganj: 44 children have died in a civil hospital in Karimganj in Assam over two months. But not one bit has changed in the hospital even now. CNN-IBN travelled to the hospital where the sick children mostly survive on prayers. Children are clinging to their lives most often losing the battle. The children's ward at Karimganj Civil hospital in Southern Assam has had 44 infant deaths over December and January...
09:21 PM, Apr 20, 2012
