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 of instigating the mob and he has resigned to ensure a free trial. Three more suspects have been arrested in the case, taking the total number to 7.
Expressing deep concern over the "shameful" act of molestation of a teenager in Guwahati openly, NCW Chairperson Mamta Sharma has said here "the report by the NCW members would be submitted on Monday to the commission".
Action would be taken against the culprits within 10 days of the submission of the report, she told reporters....
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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
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: 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
Lahore: A teenage girl in Pakistan's Punjab province allegedly shot and killed her father for scolding her for having a relationship with a boy of her neighbourhood, police said today. A 16-year-old daughter of Muhammad Shabbir of Bilal Town in Faisalabad, 100 km from Lahore, allegedly had a relationship with a boy named Muhammad Basharat. "After learning about this, Shabbir asked her not to see the boy anymore," police officer...
01:21 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Twelve hours after calling it a suicide, the second autopsy report conducted on the 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur, has confirmed it was murder. The Police, however, have still not ruled out rape. The SP of the police station has been transferred and the doctors who conducted the first autopsy have been suspended. The girl's body was found hanging outside a police station in Lakhimpur in Uttar Pradesh. Her...
08:28 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Lucknow: A teenaged girl was killed in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh after she was set on fire by four youths for resisting rape, police said on Monday. The four are said to be absconding. The 16-year-old girl, a resident of Dhansauli village, succumbed to her injuries late Sunday while being treated at a hospital. The girl was set afire by the four youths of her village on March 25...
12:47 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Karachi: Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik will have to perform well in the upcoming one-day series against Sri Lanka to be considered for the central contracts, a PCB official said on Wednesday. The performance of the two comeback players and former captains will be under scrutiny in the series, starting on Friday. The central contracts are basically performance-based so the selectors will be watching their performances and form in the...
06:49 PM, Mar 17, 2008
An eccentric cricket fan broke security cover to hug cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata. ...
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