HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, Oct 14: Five persons namely Imran Hussain, Ratul Das, Achinta Gayan, Prasanta Gayan, and Dhiren Das (Nigani) were arrested by Gaurisagar police on Thursday.
They were arrested following a statement from a woman, rescued by Gaurisagar mobile police team from Janji on NH 37 in serious condition on the intervening night of October 10 and 11. The police rushed her to the Sivasagar Civil Hospital for emergency treatment. The woman, next day, appeared at Gaurisagar police station and narrated her ordeal and how Imran Khan lured her to the house of Ratul Das of GGS Chariali for a feast and raped her along with the four others present. She was then left on the wayside late that night.
On the basis of the FIR, Bisawjit Duwori, O/C, Gaurisagar PS, promptly arrested all the accused in case no 118/2022 u/s 376. The accused will be produced in the CJM’s court, Sivasagar. The poor woman, a widow, was a worker in a restaurant.
