Assam scribes protest police assault of woman reporter
Guwahati:Journalists on Saturday protested against the alleged ‘assault and attempt to murder and outraging modesty’ of a woman reporter of a Guwahati-based television news channel in Latasil Police station here where she had gone to collect news. According to the FIR filed by the concerned woman journalist in the police station, she and the camera person of her DY365 TV news channel had gone to the police station at about 12.15 pm to cover a story. With permission of the policeman at the gate they entered the police station compound and took “photographs of the dilapidated condition of the premises and quarter rented out by policemen to others”, the FIR stated. “When we were about to leave the P S campus Sub Inspector Samsuddin Ahmed, and O/C of the concerned P S along with other police persons and tenants assaulted us and used criminal force against me intending to disrobe me”, she alleged in the FIR. “Thereafter they dragged me and my camera person inside the police station and have mercilessly beaten us and have… and have pointed official arms at us, thereby attempting to murder us and threaten us not to publish the story and have in the process broken our equipment and (we) sustained injuries,” she stated.(PTI)
Drug peddler with brown sugar held in Arunachal
Itanagar:An alleged drug peddler was arrested with 50 gram of brown sugar from Namsai in Lohit district, police said on Saturday. One Mohd Serbeque Ahmed of Dibrugarh in Assam paid a visit to a woman’s house at Namsai on January 28 last. In his absence the woman searched his bag and found the contraband and informed the police leading to his arrest on Friday, IGP (Law and Order) I D Shukla told reporters here. “The contraband was brought from Dimapur,” he said. Shukla said that around 167 cases of drug peddling were registered from Lohit, Dibang Valley, Lower Dibang Valley and Longding districts last year.Reports of involvement of NSCN(K) in drug peddling at Tirap, Changalng and Longding districts were also available with the police, he said. (PTI)
Eleven killed in Assam road mishap
Tezpur:Eleven persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Saturday, the police said. Six persons of a marriage party, including the newly married couple, died when the bus in which they were travelling collided head on with an oil tanker at Jamugurihat on National Highway 15 this morning. Five persons, including the couple, died on the spot, while another person succumbed to his injuries at Kanaklata Civil Hospital here. The couple have been identified as Dilip and Asha Sahu, while the others are yet to be identified. In another mishap, five labourers were killed on the spot when the brick laden truck, in which they were travelling, skidded off the road and turned turtle at Gohpur Hawajan on NH 15 in the same district, police added. (PTI)