Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) MLA, Gopinath Das who is facing allegation of sexual assault on his minor domestic help has gone missing according to the police looking for him after a case has been registered against him in Boko police station in Kamrup district of Assam.
Superintendent of police Indrani Baruah informed that police could not find the MLA in his official residence in the state capital complex as well as in his private residence. She said police would arrest the MLA as soon as he was located. Meanwhile, people from Boko legislative assembly constituency which is represented by the MLA Gopi Nath Das, have launched agitation demanding his immediate arrest.
Police have registered a case against the MLA, after the parents of his maid servant lodged an FIR with police alleging sexual assault. The police have registered the case against the MLA on charges of wrongfully confining a minor girl and also slammed a case under the POCSO Act.
The SP informed that the police registered a case under Section 343 of the IPC, read with Sections 4 and 5 of POCSO Act against him.
While Section 343 of the IPC refers to wrongful confinement of a person, Section 4 of POCSO Act refers to penetrative sexual assault, a crime that may lead to imprisonment of up to seven years. Section 8 of POCSO Act on the other hand leads to imprisonment of up to five years.
Reports said the girl who was engaged by the MLA as a domestic help had run away from his house on Saturday and then accompanied her parents to the Boko police station in Kamrup district, where a complaint was lodged on Sunday.
The MLA, however, had denied the allegations as false and fabricated and termed it part of a political conspiracy to tarnish his image before he vanished from public glare.
