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 Assam government will set up a state vigilance commission to deal with the corruption cases. The decision to set up this panel in the line of the Central Vigilance Commission was taken at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening. The cabinet meeting further approved a cooperative varsity in Sivasagar district of Assam.
The National Investigation Agency probing the terror funding case in Dima Hasao gets remand of DHD-J military chief Niranjan Hojai for 7 days after he was produced before a special court in Guwahati on Monday. Earlier in the afternoon he was taken to Guwahati two days after he was captured in Nepal. CBI also is set to approach the court seeking his remand.
Normal life in Assam is partially affected following the 12 hour countrywide Bharat bandh which has began in the morning. Barring government buses others are remaining off from the state. A section of business establishments is opening in some places. There is no report of any untoward incident so far. All government, semi government and private offices are functioning with skeletion staff. Flight and train services are normal. Police have arrested hundreds of bandh supporters during this period. They include BJP president Ranjit Dutta and BJP leader in Dibrugarh Prasanta Phukan.
The National Investigation Agency is all set to produce DHD-J military chief Niranjan Hojai before a special court in Guwahati on Monday. A team of NIA has already arrived in Guwahati along with Hojai 2 days after the dreaded Dimasa insurgent leader was arrested from an airport in Nepal. NIA has been seeking him to probe the terror funding case in Dima Hasao district. On the other hand, the rebel outfit which came over ground threatened to resume arms struggle if Niranjan Hojai and chairman Jewel Garlora are not released. On Sunday, some of the cadres set on fire their designated camp at Jatinga even as an indefinite bandh disrupts normal life in the hills district.
At least 150 people have been taken ill after they had consumed botched gram and pulse in Sivasagar district on Sunday. The incident took place near Sonari in Charaideo subdivision a day after they consumed prasad of gram and pulse served at a religious function. They were rushed to the hospital as soon as they started vomitting and complained of severe stomach pain. The seriously ailing persons have been referred to the Sivasagar civil hospital while others are undergoing treatment at the Nazira subdivisional hospital.
A string of sporadic incidents have marked the Dima Hasao district bandh that begun on Sunday. Called by the DHD(J), the indefinite bandh is total. But only to be marked by a string of sporadic incident. A group of DHD-J cadres set on fire a designated camp at Jatinga on Sunday. The Dimasa rebel called for the bandh demanding release of Jewel Garlosa and Niranjan Hojai.
Atleast 3 people have been injured when a passenger bus slipped into a deep gorge on Saturday night near Guwahati. According to information, the mishap took place at around 11.30 night when the Jorhat bound bus fell into a deep ditch in Jorabat. The injured passengers have been rushed to the hospital.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi says his government has no control over the autonomous bodies set up under the Sixth Schedule. Talking to reporters in Dispur on Saturday, Gogoi questioned the Opposition parties' allegations of his involvement in the Rs 1,000 crore scam in Dima Hasao district. Gogoi said if the opposition parties comes out with evidence he would quit the office.
The Assam government will provide all assistance to the jailed ULFA leaders if they come forward for talks. Announcing this Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Saturday that these facilities would be within provisions of law to enable them to take a formal decision.
Gogoi said the government has received a letter so far from an ULFA leader showing interest to hold talk. "But we Paresh Barua to come to the table," said the Chief Minister.
The National Investigation Agency has at last captured the elusive DHD(J) chief Niranjan Hojai in Nepal. According to information, the dreaded terrorist has been captured in Nepal on Friday midnight. The country's premier investigation agency has ben seeking him in connection with the nefarious terror funding cases in Dima Hasao district of Assam. Hojai, the most wanted Dimasa rebel outfit leader was captured at the Kathmandu Airport as soon as he landed from Singapore.
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