Assam MLA booked for ‘assaulting’ minor

The 14-year old girl had filed an FIR with the Mandira outpost, under Boko police station, on August 29 last that she was raped by the MLA inside his car in Guwahati.

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Das claimed that the girl had a few days ago fled from his house after taking her belongings with her.

Police have registered a case against Assam legislator Gopinath Das for wrongfully confining a minor girl in Kamrup district .

The AIUDF legislature from Boko Assembly constituency has also been charged under POCSO Act. The authorities have, meanwhile, sent the minor for a medical examination.

Kamrup SP Indrani Barua said the parents of the girl — who was engaged as a domestic help at the MLA’s residence — had lodged a complaint against Das. A case under Section 343 of the IPC along with sections 4 and 5 of POCSO Act have been registered against him. While Section 343 of the IPC refers to wrongful confinement of a person, Section 4 of POCSO Act refers to penetrative sexual assault, a crime that may lead to imprisonment of up to seven years. If charged under Section 8 of POCSO Act, it could lead to imprisonment of up to five years.

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According to the complaint, the minor girl ran away from the MLA’s house on Saturday and then accompanied her parents to the Boko police station in Kamrup district to lodge a complaint on Sunday.

Das has denied the allegations and termed them “false and fabricated”.

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