A****0 发帖数: 12393 | 1 By- Staff Reporter | Date- December 27, 2011
In an incident that should put the Defense and security forces to utter sham
e, a group of Indian Army personnel has been accused of armed robbery.
As per sources of Assam Police, it was a heavily armed army group, including
a lady officer of Captain Rank who carried out a robbery at the house of Po
ona Gogoi of in Jorhat town a week ago. During the robbery, the armed group
of about 10 people tied up Gogoi’s wife, two teenaged sons and daughter wit
h a rope, locked them up inside a room and robbed them off lakhs of cash and
other valuables.
As per reports, the group had come in a Maruti gypsy and a Tata Indica respe
ctively and was actually seen near the site of the incident by a police patr
ol at night before the crime was committed. When questioned, the gang had to
ld the police team that they were Assam Rifles personnel on official duty.
Jorhat Superintendent of Police, Sanjukta Parashar(IPS) has stated to the me
dia that the police have clear evidence of the involvement of some army pers
onnel in the robbery and that the members of the entire group, including a l
ady officer, were from the intelligence and surveillance unit of the army’s
3 Corps headquarters. The 3 Corps is based at Rangapahar near Dimapur in Na
galand, about a three hour drive from Jorhat.
It is to mentioned that Police was able to get a clue about this incident by
tracking the calls made from a mobile phone stolen from the robbed house. A
n army Jawan, Sandeep Thapa, was found making regular calls from the mobile
phone. Later, the police also showed a photograph of the lady officer, who w
as involved in the crime to the Gogoi family who identified her as one of th
e robbers.
The SP has confirmed that Jorhat police has contacted the 3 Corps authoritie
s but there was no response so far. The State Government has also been infor
med.
People of Northeast have witnessed the brutalities of the Armed forces in th
e name of controlling militancy for decade in the form of reported rapes and
fake encounters and a robbery is not a big surprise that way. It just calls
to remind the authorities that the Indian Army personnel are not above law
and any Army personnel found involved should be strictly punished. However t
he Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) often provides immunity to such c
ulprits and this law needs to be really amended or withdrawn. |
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