Agartala, July 12 (IANS): A senior Tripura government officer, missing and on the run for a fortnight after rape accusation, was arrested on Tuesday in neighbouring Assam's Karimganj, police said. "Acting on a tip-off, a Tripura Police team went to Karimganj town and arrested Panna Ahmed, 44, from a house there. He will be brought here and presented in a court for seeking his police custody," West Tripura district police chief Abhijit Saptarshi told reporters. The Tripura government suspended Ahmed, who was a sub-divisional magistrate in Sonamura sub-division of Sepahijala district. "The state government had recently requested the Union Home Ministry for issuance of a red corner notice to track the official," Saptarshi said. A Muslim woman filed an FIR with the West Agartala police station here on June 27 that Ahmed called her to his private residence here and raped her. The West Tripura District Magistrate and police are separately inquiring into the incident.
