Major Gogoi Detained With Girl From Srinagar Hotel
Srinagar,May 23 : The police today detained Major Leetul Gogoi, who was in news last year for tying a man to his jeep allegedly as a human shield, along with a local girl from a hotel in Srinagar. Police sources said legal proceedings have been initiated against Gogoi, who is posted n central Kashmir’s Budgam area.
According to the police spokesman, at around 11 a.m. the police station at Khanyar received a call from Hotel Grand Mamta that an altercation had taken place at the hotel. Police sources say a minor girl along with a man came to meet the Major who had already checked in but the hotel manager did not allow the girl to the room and that triggered altercation.
The police then deputed a police party to the hotel, and it surfaced that "one woman and a person namely Sameer Ahmed of Budgam" had come to see some persons. "But the hotel receptionists did not allow them to meet the person.
The source said the police party reached the spot and got all the persons to the police Station.
Subsequently it was learned that the girl had come to meet an army officer. "The identity and particulars of the army officer has been collected by the police.The Major was handed over to his unit after duly recording his statement. The statement of the girl is also being recorded for probing the matter."
Recently, Gogoi was honoured with the Army chief's 'Commendation Card' for his 'sustained efforts' in counter- insurgency operations.
The award for Gogoi is seen as a backing of the action of the officer belonging to the 53 Rashtriya Rifles even as the Army maintained that a court of inquiry (CoI)into the incident is "under finalisation".
A video, showing the man tied to the Army vehicle during polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-election on April 9, had triggered a public outcry, prompting the force to institute a probe.
The sources said Major Gogoi was given the award during Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat's visit to Jammu and Kashmir last week.
The Army chief's 'Commendation Card' is considered a prestigious award and is given for distinguished services and devotion to duty.
The CoI was tasked with a probe into the circumstances that prompted Major Gogoi to tie the Kashmiri youth to the jeep's bonnet as a "human shield".
courtesy: outlookindia.com
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Bangladesh's interim govt revokes ousted PM Sheikh Hasina's passport
Dhaka, Jan 7: Bangladesh's interim government on Tuesday said it has revoked the passport of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 96 others over their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and the July killings.
Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 last year when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her Awami League's (AL) 16-year regime.
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several former Cabinet ministers, advisers, and military and civil officials for “crimes against humanity and genocide”.
Addressing a press briefing here, Chief Adviser's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said, "The Passports Department cancelled passports of 22 people involved in enforced disappearances, while passports of 75 people, including Sheikh Hasina, were revoked due to their involvement in the July killings.”
He, however, did not reveal the names of the remaining individuals whose passports were cancelled, the state-run BSS news agency reported.
