GUWAHATI: Assam Police arrested Friday one of many three suspects within the alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old lady in Nagaon‘s Dhing that led protesters to hit the streets with slogans declaring they’d willingly hand over advantages of welfare schemes in return for capital punishment to the culprits.
The arrested man, recognized as Tafazul Islam, was traced to his house, about 2km from the situation the place the teenage survivor was assaulted the earlier night whereas biking her means again house from tuition.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma termed the crime “an assault on indigenous Assamese folks”, alluding to the gang-rape being reported in an space with a sizeable Bangladesh-origin immigrant inhabitants.
He talked about that it was the “twenty third such crime in two months” in pockets of the state predominantly inhabited by immigrants. “In decrease, central Assam and Barak Valley districts, the place indigenous folks have turn into a numeric minority, they’re dwelling in fixed worry. Individuals outdoors these areas can’t gauge this harsh actuality,” the CM mentioned.
Sarma mentioned the police’s response to the crime in Nagaon illustrates the distinction between governance in Assam and neighbouring Bengal. “In Bengal, when ladies are tortured, the criminals are protected and the police take suspicious motion. A daughter was tortured in Assam… and instantly ministers and law enforcement officials, together with the DGP, reached there to analyze the incident,” he mentioned in a put up on X.
Outrage over the gang rape unfold to higher Assam’s Sivasagar, the place organisations representing the native Muslim inhabitants organised a protest march demanding the arrest of the suspects and the strictest punishment to them.
DGP GP Singh mentioned related crimes had occurred not too long ago in a number of areas of central Assam. “I’ve requested for geo-tagging of areas the place inter-community interface exists. If geo-tagging might be carried out within the subsequent few days, then we are able to put together an area-specific safety plan.”
