Accused of videography and uploading pornographic video content on the Internet, an assistant professor in Assam gets Arrested

Accused of videography and uploading pornographic video content on the Internet, an assistant professor of Dibrugarh University in Assam was arrested on Friday after an FIR was lodged by the registrar of the university against him.

He was in his 30s and professor of Mathematics in the University.

“In the viral video, a person resembling the educator is seen with a woman in a compromising state. On Thursday evening, we raided his house and seized his laptop,” informed the Dibrugarh District Superintendent of Police Sreejith T to PTI.

“The professor confessed during interrogation that he had videographed the pornographic content with a woman in a hotel in Guwahati three years ago,” he added.

The police have confiscated camera which had been used for filming in a raid in the Amolapatty area of Dibrugarh.

Although the accused has claimed that the woman seen in the video was not a student of the university and the Dibrugarh district police have verified the claim with authorities of the University, an enquiry commission has been set up to investigate the matter.

Police punished weekend lockdown violators to do sit-ups in Assam Goalpara

Guwahati, July 4: Assam police found a unique way to teach lessons to the COVID-19 lockdown violators.

In a video, some police personnel were seen to give punishment to the weekend lockdown as to do sit-ups in Assam’s Goalpara district.

According to the reports, Goalpara district police personnel caught some people who violated weekend lockdown orders and didn’t wear mask also.

The lockdown violators were made to do sit-ups as punishments.

Following a sharp spike in the numbers of COVID-19 positive cases, the Assam government has announced 14-day total lockdown in Guwahati city and Kamrup (Metro) district from June 28 and weekend lockdown in the municipal and town committee areas in the other districts of the state.

In the video, the police personnel were also seen to provide face masks among the violators.

Assam has registered 9799 COVID-19 positive cases so far.

The state has reported 365 positive cases for the deadly virus in the last 24 hours.

Hog deer fleeing from Kaziranga National Park in Assam due to flood killed by hunters, two arrested, 35 animals died

Guwahati, July 4: As the flood submerged a large part of Kaziranga National Park Assam, many animals including one-horned rhino, deer, elephant have fleed from the park to seek safer places in the nearby areas and it is making easier for the hunters to locate and kill the wild animals for meat and body parts.

While the police and state forest department have engaged to provide security to the wild animals who came out from the national park due to flood, hunters are also trying to poach the animals.

Recently, police and forest officials had arrested two persons who killed a deer as the wild animal came out from the national park due to flood.

According to the reports, based on intelligence input, police and forest officials had conducted an operation at Behali area in Biswanath district and arrested two persons who killed a hog deer.

The police and forest department team arrested the persons while they were cooking the hog deer meat at a farmhouse located inside a tea garden at Dalani area.

The arrested persons were identified as Akomanlora Bora and Biswajit Baruah.

A police officer said that the hunters killed the hog deer at Rangsali area under Behali police station and they were selling the meat of the deer at the area.

“Based on intelligence input we had launched an operation at Dalani area and arrested two persons while they were cooking the meat of the deer at a farmhouse,” the police officer said.

According to the Kaziranga National Park authority, 35 wild animals including 30 hog deer have lost their lives due to the current flood in the park.

The floodwaters are gradually receding, but 65 per cent of areas in the park are still underwater.

The park authority said that, 32 camps inside the park are still underwater and the flood forced the park authority to vacate three camps.

PM Modi calls Assam CM Sonowal, takes stock of flood, erosion and COVID-19 situation, announces ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to flood victims

Guwahati, July 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday talked to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal over phone and took stock of the current flood and erosion and COVID-19 situation in the state.

Prime Minister Modi during the talk expressed solidarity with the people of the state and said that the central government stands shoulder to shoulder with the efforts of the Assam government to overcome the challenging situations.

PM Modi also assured all kinds of supports from the union government to the state government to tide over the present crisis.

Prime Minister Modi has announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for next kin of persons who lost their lives due to floods in Assam from PMNRF.

During the talk, Assam Chief Minister Sonowal apprised the Prime Minister about the havoc wrought by the latest wave of flood, which has submerged vast tract of agricultural land in the State and crippled normal life.

Sonowal informed that several districts are reeling under flood and this has caused huge damages to crops and disrupted communication network in different parts.

“Besides, erosion and landslides have also severely impacted the State and claimed several lives,” Sonowal said.

Sonowal also informed the PM about the relief and rehabilitation measures being made for the marooned people and engagement of NDRF as well SDRF personnel in rescue operations.

Further, the Assam Chief Minister informed the Prime Minister about the present COVID-19 situation in the State.

“Though the numbers of COVID-19 positive cases are surging, the state government is fully geared up to render best possible health care services to the COVID positive patients,” Sonowal said.

The Assam Chief Minister also apprised PM Modi about the dedicated health facilities being developed in the state to deal with COVID-19 cases.

35 people have died so far due to flood in Assam and over 13 lakh people of 20 districts are affected in the current wave of flood.

Social Distancing norms in Assam goes for a toss as politicians, thousands of people attend MLA’s father’s funeral

Social distancing norms and regulations went for a toss in Assam as Congress legislator, Pradyut Bordoloi along with thousands of others accumulated at the janaja (funeral) ceremony of Dhing MLA Amirul Islam’s father in Nonagaon’s Juria on Thursday.

Mufti Khairul Islam, the deceased father of the incumbent MLA was a well-known name in the Islamic religious sect, besides being the Vice President of the All India Jamiat Ulema. A veteran religious leader, he had been suffering from kidney and heart problems. He took his last breath on Wednesday.

Besides Borodoloi, a large crowd gathered on Thursday to witness the funeral of Mufti, violating social distancing norms and government guidelines amid the pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives in the country.

A large portion of the crowd was seen moving around without masks.

At a time, when the Coronavirus pandhas created havoc worldwide, commoners have slammed the district administration for allowing such a gathering to take place, especially as the Union Health Ministry had previously issued guidelines stating that not more than 20 people should be present at social events like funerals and marriages.

The Assam Health Ministry has allowed not more than 10 people to gather in funerals.

A resident of the Nonagaom district termed Congress MLA as ‘irresponsible’ as a political leader for flouting safety protocols.

Rejecting all allegations, Borodoloi said, “Mufti Khairul Islam was a celebrated religious leader, which invited people from all across to attend his funeral ceremony. 

Everybody present in the funeral was wearing face masks. People have deep emotional connections with him and I,  too, am one of them.“

Mufti was also the Aamir-e-Shariat from North-East India.