Guwahati : Another moral policing incident was happened in Assam. The incident was took place at Jumurmur area under Kathiatoli police station in central Assam’s Nagaon district, where a couple was beaten up by locals.
The locals beat up a man and a woman for being allegedly involved in an illicit affair.
The incident was happened on June 23 night and the locals beat up the couple entire night.
The locals tied the legs of the man and brutally tortured them.
On Sunday morning, Kathiatoli police had rescued the couple in serious condition and admitted them in hospital.
Meanwhile, police has registered a case and arrested eight persons for their alleged involvement with it.
The arrested persons were identified as Jadab Baruah, Krishna Mohan Nath, Deben Chandra Das, Dip Das, Bhaben Das, Kirti Nath Hazarika, Suren Das and Atul Baruah.
Nagaon district Superintendent of Police (SP) Shankar Rai Medhi said that, the incident has been reported from Kathiatoli area under Kampur police station and police has taken the matter very seriously.
“We have already arrested eight persons in connection with it and some others name also come up,” the Assam cop said.
On June 17, a girl and a boy were beaten up by some people at Pukhuripar area under Rongjuli police station in Goalpara district while the local girl travelling with the non locality boy on a motorcycle.
The girl is being assaulted by a group of men for having a relationship with a boy.
Following the incident, police had registered a suo moto case (No.73/18 u/s 120B/143/342/325/354B IPC) at Rongjuli police station on June 20 night and police had arrested the main accused named Qurban Ali (39) and two other persons seen assaulting the victim girl.
On the other hand, a youth was beaten up by some people in Assam's Darrang district alleged that the youth trying to meet a local girl.
The incident took place at Mangaldoi Kalaigaon area in Lower Assam’s Darrang district, where the youth hailing from Gauripur area in Dhubri district brutally assaulted by a mob.
The victim youth was identified as Bijay Rai worked in Airtel company and he tried to meet a girl of Mangaldoi Kalaigaon locality.
When local people knew this, some people caught the youth and beat him.
On June 8 last, two youths from Guwahati were beaten to death by a mob in the name of child traffickers at Panjuri village under Dokmoka police station in Karbi Anglong district.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
