Guwahati: Guwahati city police have arrested a private hospital owner with a lady doctor and a youth for allegedly conducting an abortion to a minor on Sunday night. Panbazaar Police has registered a foeticide case against them.
The girl aging about 14 years accused her lover Amar Sharma (30 years) of Raha in Nagaon district for her pregnancy. According to her, Amar misguided her taking advantage of her inocence. When Amar came to know about her pregnancy, he brought her to a city nursing home Wintrobe and arranged for immediate abortion paying a cash amount of Rs. 2000 to the hospital authorities. When police got information about this,a team from Pan Bazaar police station reached the hospital and rescued the girl. Supreme Court of India recently held that any kind of sexual relations with a minor is equivalent to rape.
PermalinkSubmitted by Dr. Hemanta Kum... on Tue, 07/08/2007 - 15:51
Unmarried mothers pose a serious problem and burden to the society. Unfortunately, the magnitude of the problem is ever increasing all over world, and Assam is no exception. The question is whether we expose these unfortunate mothers to the public with the help of police and the media or help them out of crisis by medical termination of pregnancy under expert care instead of allowing them to go for unsafe abortions under the quacks (a desparate step most likely to be taken by most of the guardians). I do not think that our society is liberal enough to rehabilate these victims and wonder how people who make such hues and cries over such incidents of MTP would react should such misfortune befall to some minor members in their own family. Can someone solve a doctor's dilemma in a situation like this ?
PermalinkSubmitted by YK Shrestha on Tue, 21/08/2007 - 11:23
I entirely agree with Dr. Gogoi. I think instead of creating a ruckus, the police should take care of the person who is responsible and the unmarried mothers should be helped in all possible ways and re-habilate them.
Dispur is all set to undertake the second phase of power sector reforms in the form of major initiatives to boost generation and greater efforts for privatisation. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati on Wednesday, power minister Pradyut Bordoloi said that the time has come to undertake the second phase of the reforms where focus would on increasinggeneration and improving transmission and distribution. Assam has a peak demand of 720 MW-780 MW. Of this only 130 MW-150 MW of power is being generated fromits own power stations, while another around 400 MW is being imported from central sector generating stations in the North East and remaining from other sources like privateproducers...
In yet another bizarre incident that sends shockwaves across Assam, five people beheaded two brothers before surrendering before police in Jorhat on Wednesday.
The gory incident took place at Cinamora in the outskirt of Jorhat town where five persons beheaded two brothers at the height of a land dispute at around 11 in the morning. The victims were identified as Bolu Tanti and Luit Tanti of Tocklai Tea garden in Rajabari area. Bolu, the elder brother, was first attacked and his head severed with sharp weapons while he was returning after dropping his son at school at around 10:30 am. Ruhi was then beheaded at the garden where Luit was working. Then the five put the severed heads in a...
RTI Akhil Gogoi has blamed Tarun Gogoi alleging that the Chief Minister has created space for Maoist groups to operate in the state. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, he said that the government’s repressive policies are to be blamed. According to him, in such a circumstance armed rebels and Maoists will emerge as the opposition. KMSS, along with eight other organisations have announced a day long agitation programme across Assam on Wednesday against the recent alleged atrocities committed by state police and CRPF on unarmed anti-dam activists in Lakhimpur district
KMSS Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday alleged that Dispur is well prepared to gag big dam protest with iron hand.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Gogoi said that the government has set up a special cell in police to rein the dam protestors.He said that the police cell is secretly imparting training to a section of local youths at the Lakhimpur home guard training centre to assist them handle the protest.
The recent killing of four youths in Sadiya mires in a major controversy when People's Union for Democratic Rights on Tuesday accused security forces of killing the youngmen in cold blood branding them Maoists. The organization revealed that not a single policeman was injured in this encounter which was said to be a fierce one. In a statement PUDR alleged that the 'encounter' is one among several thousand such custodial killings by the security forces.The incident took place on May 9, a joint team of Assam Police, Central Reserve Police Force and Indian Army killed the four in Saidya.The victims were identified as Siddhartha Buragohain, Medang Gogoi alias Rajib Gogoi, Hiren Chetia alias...
The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has appealed to news channels based in Guwahati to exercise restrain on providing publicity related to the entry (appointment ) or exit (because of termination or resignation) an editor and his deputies to/from a particular channel.As the editors and his deputies are ethically not involved with any public financial dealing in their professional life, the EMFA argues, the news related to their entry or exit does not deserve space forwider publicity.
“For any reason, if an editor leaves a media house, the news of his exit should not be over emphasized by the respective management such that the damage caused to the editor concerned can be...
A meeting of Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla and leaders of All NGOs Joint Committee of Mizoram on Sunday decided to resolve boundary disputes with Assam. The All NGOs Joint Committee handed over a memorandum on boundary dispute to the chief minister and informed the latter about the efforts being made so far by the NGOs on the issue.
Normal life was paralysed in Dhubri district following a 24-hour bandh called by the various parties and organizations in protest against the killing of a wholesale trader on Saturday. All shops and business establishments, offices, financial institutions and educational institutions remained closed. Roads wore a desert look under the impact of the bandh.
The bandh to protest the killing of a 62-year old wholesale trader Jhumurlal Jain at his shop by two assailants at Chowkbazaar area, was peaceful. The shutdown was called by the BJP, All Assam Bhojpuri Parishad and All Dhubri Vyavasik Sansthan with the AIUDF and AGP extending support to it.
Dispur rolls up its sleeves to set up two separate police cells to firmly deal with Maoist elements and the menace of counterfeit currency. Disclosing this on Monday, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that both the cells will be headed by officers not below the rank of an inspector general of police. He said that the Maoists tactics are different than other insurgents. That’s why, he said specialised skills were required.
“We would strike deal with the Centre for the specialised training of the officers,” he said. Gogoi’s announcement assumes significance a few days after P Chidambaram assured the north east of all help to deal with these elements.
Four persons, including a woman, were killed and three others injured when a mini truck collided its head on a van at Ledo in Tinsukia district on Monday. Four killed in road mishap in Guwahati The van caught fire as soon as the head on collision took place. Three of its passengers died on the spot, while another lost his life later in hospital.
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