Gangrape in Kampur: 8 held
RAHA: The Nagaon police on Saturday have arrested eight youths twenty four hours after they gangraped a women in full view of her husband in Kakoti gaon near Kampur sending huge shock and anger across the state.
The shocking incident took place on Thursday night where the miscreants gangraped the woman after assaulting her husband whom they tied with a rope.
According to information, the couple while travelling from Jagiroad to Hojai by train on Thursday night came into contact with Mazrat Ali in the train. The miscreant Mazrat Ali,who hailed from Baruabali , near Kakati Gaon forced the couple to come down at Chaparmukh Junction as the train the trio boarded was for another route.
As the time passed on, taking advantage of inavailability of another train to Hojai , Mazrat lured the couple to take shelter at his home at Baruabali Gaon for the night.
He also assured the couple to help them board another train on the next day to their destination Hojai. Believing Mazrat , the couple followed him walking to his village. On their way to Baruabali Gaon , Mazrat Ali ‘s friends who had been there waiting for Mazrat and the couple arrival at the spot gangraped the woman in front of her husband.
Her husband said, "When we were travelling on a train from Jagiroad, a person who said that he is hailing from Kakati Gaon area, talked with us and asked us where we will go. The man then forcefully made us come down from the train at Chaparmukh railway junction and urged us to go with him to his residence,” he said.
Later, the victim couple lodged an FIR with Kampur police acting on which Kampur police led by Shomeswar Konwar , Officer In-charge, Kampur P S , jumped into action to nab the miscreants.
Meanwhile , Police have arrested all the eight miscreants involved in the case. The eight arrested identified as Mazrat Ali ( 24 ) , Ikramul Hoque ( 22 ), Farzul Haque ( 24 ) Mazidul Ahmed ( 25 ) Sultan Ali ( 24 ) Nazirul Haque ( 20 ) Habibur Rahman ( 21 ) Mamtaz Ali ( 27 ).
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