Assam’s Dhing Gang-Rape Case: Prime Accused Escapes Police Custody; Dies After Jumping Into Pond

The high accused within the rape of a minor female allegedly escaped from police custody, jumped right into a pond and died on Saturday morning at Dhing in Assam’s Nagaon district. The incident occurred at some level of a re-advent of the crime scene at Three.30 am on Saturday. The accused, Tafazul Islam, who had been apprehended the day long gone by, managed to flee and jumped into the water physique, main to his loss of life. “When a police group took him choicest night to the spot for investigation the condition the incident occurred, the high accused tried to flee and jumped right into a pond realized neighborhood the internet page. Our police personnel engaged in a search operation and with the lend a hand of the SDRF group we recovered his physique from the pond in in for the time being and age morning,” Swapnaneel Deka, Superintendent of Police of Nagaon district told ANI.

#WATCH | The physique of the high accused of the Dhing gang rape incident in Assam’s Nagaon district, Tafazul Islam recovered from a pond. The police had except now arrested him in connection with the case.

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The 14-yr-historic female became raped by three humans who came in a motorbike and surrounded her when she became returning dwelling from practicing on her bicycle at Dhing on Thursday (August 22) nighttime. She became left injured and unconscious on the roadside very on the subject of a pond, except now than being rescued by locals who proficient police.

The incident caused colossal protests within the Dhing location the condition locals and superbly a differ of corporations demanded stringent action in opposition to the culprits.

Police arrested one character and detained yet one other when search became on to nab the 0.33. Director Everyday of Police G P Singh had reviewed the growth of the investigations on Friday.

CM Himanta Biswa Sarma reacts

Speaking on the incident, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma observed on Friday, “When there's any atrocity in opposition to women, we favor to take instant action.”

Addressing the media, Sarma observed, “I want to claim only 1 thing. When there's any atrocity in opposition to women, we favor to take instant action. On the option hand the public should see that the federal government is taking strict action. When humans fully feel that the federal government is showing laxity, they get offended. When such incidents take neighborhood, the federal government should take very aggressive action. The government in Bengal didn’t do it, so humans got offended.”