Man held for lewd remarks about slain CRPF jawan's widow
Guwahati, June 25 (IBNS): The Crime Branch of Assam Police with the help of Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a man named Syed Abbass for allegedly making lewd remarks about the widow of slain CRPF jawan Sunil Kalita who was killed in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir recently.
Abbass made discourteous comment on Kalita’s wife on the Facebook page of News Live TV channel while she was paying her tributes and saluting her slain husband during the last rites.
In view of this, one Ramen Barua lodged an FIR with Kamalpur Police Station on June 15.
Accordingly, a case was registered and the officer in charge of Kamalpur police station Mrinal Das was directed to lead a three-member team to Jammu and Kashmir.
The team left for Kashmir on June 17 and the accused person was arrested with assistance from Jammu and Kashmir Police, central and state intelligence agencies.
The accused was produced at Damhal Hanji Pora Court in Kulgam district on June 22 and he was sent to eight days transit remand to Assam Police team as the accused is being brought to Guwahati by flight via New Delhi.
Kidnap arrest
In another case, the state police apprehended Jawed Ahmed in Siddharth Nagar of Nashik District, Maharashtra for allegedly kidnapping a girl.
Joykumar Das had lodged a missing complaint of his daughter at Jamunamukh police station.
In course of investigation one accomplice namely Rubul Islam was arrested. During further interrogation, it came to light that the accused had fled Assam and with the kidnapped girl and was headed to Maharashtra.
A team was constituted which rushed to Nasik and with an active support of its counterpart in Maharashtra the Assam Police pinned down the accused and arrested him and rescued the girl on 23 June. The police team along with accused and rescued girl are in transit and will reach Hojai by June 27.
On the other hand, following a direction from Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal, the Assam police has launched major crackdown against cattle smuggling and arrested its kingpin Mohammed Sarfaraz from Pandey Parsa under Phulbaria police station of Gopalganj district in Bihar.
A team of the Crime Branch of City Police with the help of the Bihar Police arrested Sharfaraz on Saturday and brought him to the city on Monday. The police have arrested Sharfaraz on charges of smuggling cattle to Bangladesh on the basis of the confessional statement of another accused Dildar Hussain, who was arrested earlier.
It may be mentioned that earlier a case was registered at Basistha Police Station in the city against cattle smuggling on the complaint of one Salim Javed Hazarika of Guwahati.
The complainant alleged that Mohammed Sarfaraz of Hastinapur, 9 Mile, Jorabat and Dildar Hussain of Sonapur Balighat along with 14 other accused were running a racket involving transportation of cattle illegally and same were smuggled across Bangladesh border.
It was also alleged that payment of the transactions were made through hawala transactions running through Fancy Bazar area of the city.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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