Suspended Assam Cop Assam Cop on Suspended for Accepting Bribe from Rape Suspect's Relative

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• Nov 10, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital
Desk: According to a CID statement, suspended Superintendent of Police Raj
Mohan Ray was detained on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh
from the family of a man accused of raping and killing a 13-year-old girl in
Assam's Darrang district.

According
to a press release from the state's Criminal Investigation Department (CID),
the SP was detained after evidence was gathered.

In
order to weaken the case against the accused in the girl's murder, the report
claimed that Ray had illegally obtained payment from the accused's family.

According
to the statement, he was taken into custody in connection with a new case the
Assam CID had filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC sections.

Ray
"got an amount of Rs 2 lakh from the accused's family," the CID investigators
discovered after examining the bank account statements of the accused's family,
call detail records, tower positions, and geo-location mapping, it was
reported.

Utpal
Borah, who was the official in command of the Dhula police station at the time
and was detained on October 31 by the CID, had given Ray the money.

Three
physicians from Mangaldai Civil Hospital — Arun Chandra Deka, Ajanta Bordoloi,
and Anupam Sharma — who had performed the first post-mortem examination — and
the then Additional SP Rupam Phukan were detained on November 7 for
"various commissions and omissions."

According
to the CID, the local magistrate, Ashirvad Hazarika, whose position has also
come under scrutiny, is currently missing.

An
FIR was filed with the Dhula police station after an alleged rape and murder of
a 13-year-old domestic assistant in June.

Outrage
over the event resulted in Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visiting the
girl's family on August 12 in response to their claims that the police showed
great negligence in gathering evidence.

The
family also claimed that they had been under pressure from the head of the
Dhula police station to refrain from filing a formal written complaint on the
unnatural death.

According
to the CID announcement, "sufficient evidence has been brought on record
to show the offences of molestation, murder, evidence destruction, attempt to
rape, and sexual assault on a young kid under POCSO Act."

The
state investigative agency had exhumed the body throughout the investigation,
obtained a second autopsy, consulted a group of forensic specialists, and did
DNA profiling of the primary suspect, which matched with the fluids on the
victim's clothing, it claimed.

Accordingly,
the primary accused, who is still in judicial prison, was charged in detail on
September 25, according to the CID.

It
went on to say that once the chargesheet was filed, CID began looking into the
participation of government figures and uncovered the wrongdoing of the police,
magistrate, and medical professionals conducting the initial post-mortem
examination.

"The
homes of the arrested OC, additional SP, and SP were also searched by the CID,
and some incriminating materials were taken. Daily investigations into the
matter are ongoing "The announcement stated.

Ray, Phukan, and Borah have already been suspended by the chief
minister. Additionally, he gave the case to a Special Investigation Team (SIT)
to look into.