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Ex-news channel journalist arrested in Guwahati molestation case
Friday July 20, 2012 08:12:15 PM, IANS
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Guwahati: Journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog was arrested here in connection with the July 9
G.S. Road molestation case, police said.
Neog, who worked for channel News Live, had quit after he was
accused of instigating the mob harassing the victim, a teenaged
girl.
The journalist has been arrested, Additional Superintendent of
Police (Operations) Ranjan Bhuyan, who heads the special
investigation team probing the case, told IANS.
"Neog has been booked under Section 294 (obscene acts and songs),
Section 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty
of a woman) and Section 34 of the IPC," newly-appointed Senior
Superintendent of Police (City) A.P. Tiwari told IANS.
Right to Information (RTI) activist Akhil Gogoi had alleged that
Neog, who was present during the molestation of a teenage girl by
a group of youth outside a pub on the busy G.S. Road, had
instigated the crowd to strip the girl in public.
The activist had produced the video footage of the whole incident
before the media to prove his allegation and also submitted the
footage to Assam police chief Jayanta Narayan Choudhury.
Neog had resigned from the channel following the controversy. The
channel's editor-in-chief Atanu Bhuyan had also resigned from the
channel later.
However, Amarjyoti Kalita, whom the police have dubbed as the main
culprit in the incident, is still at large.
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