A 63-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court under the POCSO Act for raping a nine-year-old girl. Dhubri Additional Session Judge Cum Special Judge (POCSO), Poli Katoki convicted and sentenced the man to rigorous imprisonment for life on Wednesday. The man was slapped with a fine of Rs 50,000
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma will lead a delegation of cabinet ministers of his state to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital on Thursday to apprise him about the recent firing incident along the border with Assam which left six people dead. The delegation will demand
The firing incident that took place after a clash between Meghalaya villagers and a contingent of police and forest guards from Assam has nothing to do with the border dispute between the two states, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “Just to clarify that incident has nothing to do
Congress leader Manish Tewari on Wednesday, while reacting to Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “Saddam Hussein” jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said that the Assam Chief Minister “sounds like a petty troll”. Sarma on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi “looks like Saddam Hussein”, who was the former Iraqi president and was executed by
A day after the violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Congress has alleged that this was a “deliberate incident” and both Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya were aware of it. The firing incident happened on Tuesday where six persons including five from Meghalaya and one Assam Forest Guard were