Assam police officer booked for assault on woman in Guwahati

Guwahati, September 17, 2014: The police late last night registered a case against a senior Assam Police officer of the rank of an SP in the heart of Guwahati following allegations of misbehavior and assault lodged by a woman, with the police registering an FIR against him under Sections 448, 427, 294 and 354 of the IPC.

Confirming this, Guwahati City Senior Superintendent of Police AP Tiwari said the officer, one Mihir Jyoti Goswami, currently Commandant of the Assam Forest Battalion, was picked up from in front of a beauty parlour-cum-spa sent for medical examination and then further examined by the police, after which he was allowed to go.

The FIR lodged by a woman who runs a beauty parlour said Goswami had gone to her beauty parlour, misbehaved with her, made indecent proposals, hurled abuses and also physically assaulted her. The incident took place at around 9 PM in the beauty parlour-cum-spa on the busy GS Road. It was outside a bar on the same GS Road that a sensational case of sexual assault on a woman had hit international headlines in July 2012.

Source: Morung Express