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.
The All Assam Students' Union leaders are staging a sit-in-satyagraha from Saturday alleging non implementation of the Assam Accord even it was signed 25 years back. The central committee leaders of the student body have begun the satyagraha from 6 in the morning beside Dighalipukhuri. They would wind up it only after unfurling the tricolour at the Latashil playground. Notably, the trilateral pact was reached after an end to the 6 year long struggle 25 years back demanding primarily detecting and deportation of the Bangladeshi immigrants.
A painting and photography exhibition will be held at Diphu on August 18-19 which is being organised by Curves & Shades. Exhibitions by “Curves & Shades” has attracted due attention from artists and patrons likewise and has proved to be a great platform that India Today quoted as “Stroke of Inspiration” for young budding talents and since then its has been a “runaway hit” (as reported by IANS). This amazing alternative space for encouragement to young artists from different fields of art form is in fact a innovation of Ranjan Engti, a popular Karbi artist from Karbi Anglong.
“Curves & Shades” was formed in the year 2004 to limelight...
The All Assam Students Union has blasted political clique in Assam for not getting the Assam Accord inplemented in toto. This has forced the students body to release a white paper on the implementation of the Accord 25 years later on Friday. The organisation leaders are all set to
stage a hunger strike in Guwahati from 6 in the morning on Saturday till the unfurling of the national tricolour on Sunday morning.
Talking to reporters, AASU leaders said they would organise sit-in-Satyagraha in Guwahati demanding total implementation of the Assam Accord.They further demanded apology from apology for thier failure.
Panic grips in Sivasagar town following the recovery of a powerful bomb on Friday evening. The bomb was recovered from the ASTC Bus Stand which was kept inside an unclaimed bag. Later it was defused by police and army.
Altogether five people, including three of a family, were killed when lightning struck them in a field in in Goalpara district Friday. According to information, the incident took place in the afternoon at Dudhnoi where all the victims were working in a paddy field. Three of them were from a family - a father and two minor sons.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Friday slammed the government for unabeted infiltration to Assam from across the Indo-Bangla border. Addressing a seminar in Guwahati on Friday Swaraj blamed the IMDT for the failure in detecting and deporting the Bangladeshi immigrants.She told that the IMDT was introduced to shield the immigrants. The BJP leader regretted the NDA government's failure to implement the Accord. Organized by NEPR, the two day long was attended by several political leaders and intellectuals at Machkhowa ITA.
Assam sounds red alert ahead of the Independence Day celebrations across the state on Sunday. Security forces are being deployed at vital oil and gas installations along with roads and bridges after police received inputs of possible strikes by ULFA, NDFB, KLO alogn with insurgent outfits who are calling a general strike from Saturday midnight. Bus and railway stations in are teeming with security forces who are intensifying checking.
Guwahati also gears up for the Independence Day celebrations. Historic Latasheel Field is wearing a festive look amid tight security where acting Chief Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman will unfurl the national tricolour. The government is preparing the list...
AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary is all set to quit as Opposition leader to pave the way Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to replace him. According to Patowary, he would get time to devote for the party. He said the party has a lot to be done to ensure good performance in the next assembly polls. According to information, the party is expected to elect former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta for the post.
The centre is not in a hurry to allow big dam to come up in the north eastern region. Informing this in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said the centre would keep in mind the possible impact of big dam on the people living in the downstream areas. Participating in the debate,AGP member Biren Baishya said the NHPC big dam in Arunchal Pradesh would spell a disaster for the people of Assam in it's northern district. Arunachal Pradesh MP Mukut Mithi claimed the NHPC-owned project would be a sustainable source of energy for the power strapped north eastern states. According to lower Subansiri hydel project would in no way have any adverse impact on the...
A three-day camp on free and open source software called “FOSSilize” is going to be held at IIT Guwahati campus on September 3-5. The goal of the event is to increase the awareness, integration and adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) tools among the students. The emphasis is on building the capacity of the students to use FOSS. The event will bring together students from both the technical and non-technical colleges in the region. The aim is to use this event - and subsequent activities - as an opportunity to broaden expertise, forge new ideas and connections, and encourage the creative use of FOSS within the different projects and initiatives in the region...
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