Bangaluru police have freed the son of a Congress MLA from Assam hours after he was accrested in a rape case where the victim died in a local hospital.
According to allegations, Rhituraj Phukan, the son of MLA was released from the Krishna Nagar police station on Thursday 24 hours after he was picked up along with his friend Pallav Phukan.
Both Rhituraj and Pallav allegedly raped a housemaid at a room who later succumbed to her injuries on Thursday forcing police to arrest the duo.
But police alegedly had to release Rhituraj at the instance of a circle of powerful political leaders.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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