GUWAHATI: A prominent Congress leader of the state was arrested on Thursday on the charge of allegedly raping a 40-year-old Bodo woman who's a mother of two at her home at Salbari in Chirang district in the Bodo Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) area.
The accused, Bikramsing Brahma, is alleged to have committed the crime on Wednesday night at the victim's house where stayed overnight. But it was only on Thursday morning that the victim's husband raised a hue and cry, after which the villagers caught him and beat him up in public before handing him over to police. Assam Police IGP GP Singh said, "Brahma has been arrested on the charge of rape."
The victim's husband filed the FIR, based on which the arrest was made. He alleged in his FIR that Brahma was in touch with his family for the last three months and had been promising them contracts for government schemes. The victim has undergone a medical test and has been taken to her residence where police security has been provided. Police said that victim has not been brought to police station to keep her identity concealed.
The state unit of the Congress suspended Brahma from the party immediately after getting the report. Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman Ranjan Bora said, "As Brahma has been arrested, we have decided to suspend his party membership. He was earlier a chief coordinator of the BTC coordination committee of Congress but the committee was dissolved two years back. Since then, he was an ordinary member of the party."
A Bodo himself, Brahma was the Congress candidate from Sapaguri assembly constituency in Baksa district in the 2011 state assembly election, which he lost. Police have started investigating the case and are waiting for the medical report, which would take a couple of days, to move forward.
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