• Assam: SI Junmoni Rabha’s ‘Adya Shraddha’ rituals performed today

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    Assam: SI Junmoni Rabha’s ‘Adya Shraddha’ rituals performed today
    An eyewitness reported during the investigation that the Alto car where the SI was found dead had been parked there for some time.

    Digital Desk: On Friday, the family members of the deceased Morikolong sub-inspector (SI) Junmoni Rabha observed her "Adya Shraddha."

    At her Guwahati home in Kahilipara, family members, relatives, and neighbours gathered.

    SI Junmoni Rabha, an efficient Assam police officer popularly known as Lady Singham or the Dabang Cop, mysteriously died sometime between the nights of May 16 and 17, 2023.

    Although it was initially reported that the police officer passed away while on duty in a car accident, the deceased's family and well-wishers claimed that the officer had been caught up in a large-scale murder conspiracy.

    Following her passing, Assam police DGP GP Singh ordered a CID investigation.

    An eyewitness reported during the investigation that the Alto car where the SI was found dead had been parked there for some time.

    These revelations have been made by a person who claims to have been there when the incident happened. He claimed that the truck had struck the Alto, which was parked nearby, after coming at it from the front.

    Later, Assam police arrested him and recorded his statement. They also detained the truck driver who was said to have fled the scene of the suspected collision. According to media accounts, the driver turned himself in to the police.



    Various call recordings of some unknown people, including some police officers, became viral on social media during the developments.

    Later, Assam police began to confirm these call recordings and called the senior police personnel about the suspicious death case for questioning.

    Some of the top police officials were forbidden from going to the Assam police headquarters and told to come as soon as possible.

    The mother of the deceased police officer also filed a FIR at the Jakhalabandha Police Station in Assam's Nagaon district, asking for a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding her daughter's passing.

    In the meantime, opposition parties called for a judicial investigation into the incident.

    Later, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma refuted these claims and declared that, at the request of the family of the late police officer Junmoni Rabha, he was prepared to turn the issue over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

    Days later, the issue was discussed as part of a press conference when Assam's DGP, GP Singh, told the media that the police will request to the state government that the case of Junmoni Rabha be transferred from CID Assam to CBI after debating and taking humanitarian considerations into account.

    The police department undertook numerous internal reorganisations in response to the case transfer proposal, including the removal of the two districts' superintendents of police, Nagaon and Lakhimpur.