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Noonmati killer arrested

By AT News |

 The Noonmati police have arrested a person on Thursday a day after he allegedly raped and killed a college girl in the area sending shock and anger across the state.

Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, police commissioner Amitav Sinha said identified as Akbar Ali he was arrested with 24 hours of the incident where he allegedly raped and strangulated to death the college girl after she want out of her home.

Post mortem report is awaited. But a section of the police officials is trying to call it a simple murder case by a drug addicted youth. Her body was found beside a drain on Wednesday.

 

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