Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 7
An incident occurred in Dimapur on June 6 which one thought only occured in movies. One man arrested in connection with a fraud case was kidnapped from the Central Jail. The man, identified as one Deepak Borah alias Pradeep (36 years), was accused of complicity in a cheating case amounting to Rs. 23 lakhs. He was arrested by the Dimapur police on May 6 from Tezpur, Assam based on a complaint lodged at East Police Station on May 3. According to the FIR, the complaint was lodged by one Medokolie Zossumo. As per the FIR the complainant was duped by the accused Borah along with two other accomplices in a hoax ‘bitumen deal’.
Following his arrest, Borah was forwarded to the court on May 22 and placed under judicial custody at the Central Jail, Dimapur. On June 6, the accused obtained an interim bail for a period of one month from the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dimapur on medical grounds.
After obtaining the legal directive, KL Regina Yanthan, an advocate of the Gauhati High Court, had gone to the Central Jail to bail out the accused. According to advocate Yanthan, she had come to Dimapur from Guwahati to represent the petitioner (accused) on behalf of one SC Biswas, a senior advocate of the Gauhati High Court. The latter was the legal counsel for the accused, she said.
However, when Yanthan along with an associate reached the Central Jail, they encountered resistance eventually resulting in the abduction of the accused.
Recounting the turn of events of the day, Yanthan said that at the prison, they were met by the Assistant Jailor, and were told “the accused could not be released today” and were asked to wait. “Accordingly we waited for about half an hour. Again, the Assistant jailor told us that the accused would be released and handed over to Khatkhati PS, Karbi Anglong, Assam along with police security, since the accused was from Assam and since some underground cadres are also waiting at the jail gate to take away the accused...”
The police escort however did not materialise and the Assistant Jailor in turn asked Yanthan to seek the same from Diphupar Police Station. But when they sought to go to Diphupar PS “he told us that since the accused person has already been released, he (accused) could not be kept inside the jail and asked us to take away the accused... immediately.”
Meanwhile, the Assistant Jailor brought one (unidentified) person inside the jail, while posing the question, “who will take charge of the released accused?” Yanthan said. Sensing danger, Yanthan said that she further requested the Assistant Jailor to keep the accused in the custody of the jail until the escort arrived. The Assistant Jailor did not relent, on grounds that the accused was officially released on bail and asked them to sign in the “prison register.”
They were eventually made to sign under duress with the unidentified person warning them of dire consequences if they did not put their signature on the register, Yanthan said.
After the signature procedure was done with, a second person was let inside the jail entrance. The two unidentified individuals then accosted the accused, took him out and forced him inside a waiting vehicle (a white Bolero), and sped away, Yanthan said. Meanwhile, the Assistant Jailor also got out and went away.
After the incident, Yanthan said that they proceeded to Diphupar PS to lodge a complaint where the FIR was initially not accepted. Only later could they submit a “Simple FIR to one Havildar of the police station,” Yanthan added. Further, it was added that a complaint in this regard was also submitted to the Dimapur Bar Association.
The whereabouts of the abducted accused was yet to be ascertained till the time of filing this report. The wife of the accused had also reportedly filed a complaint at Khatkhati Police Station after the incident.
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