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
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
BK Handique, the Minister of Development of North Eastern Region, said that the problem with the police was that it arrived after the incident. "Police has no pre-knowledge that such a thing will happen," he said. ...
02:04 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
Activist and Professor Dr Rakhee Kalita of the Cotton College has said that incidents similar to the Guwahati mob molestation case have been happening in India for the past few years. ...
09:25 AM, Jul 13, 2012
