Guwahati: At least 148 police personnel of the Nagaon Police Department in Assam’s Nagaon were transferred within the district on Thursday.
The internal transfer was ordered by the office of the Superintendent of Police, Nagaon earlier this morning.
As per the order, the decision was taken by the district-level board for transfer and posting under section 46 of the Assam Police Act 2007.
The personnel transferred were Head Constables and WUBC of the department.
These personnel were transferred to different police stations, outposts and patrol posts.
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It may be mentioned that the transfers came amidst the ongoing controversies related to SI Junmoni Rabha’s death.
It may be mentioned that a sub-inspector of the Assam Police, Junmoni Rabha died under mysterious circumstances.
She was posted in Nagaon and was initially claimed to have died in an accident near the Kaliabor-Jakhalabanda area in Nagaon.
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However, later suspicion grew and the incident was suspected as a “pre-planned” murder.
Nagaon SP, Leena Doley too denied making any statements regarding the incident in front of the media.
But, two persons came forward to the media and claimed that they knew about the case.
The first was a woman from Lakhimpur named Hasina Begum who alleged that Junmoni Rabha might have been murdered by a racket of fake-gold smugglers.
She even claimed that Junmoni Rabha had called and told her about the life threats.
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Another person named Pranab Das claimed that he saw that Junmoni’s vehicle was rammed by a truck on purpose.
However, his statements were reported to be contradictory.
He claimed that Junmoni’s vehicle was stationary for a long time and that he saw a person getting out of the vehicle minutes before it was rammed by the UP-registered truck.
He also said that two persons were moving around the car before the impact.
But he approached the vehicle only after the police arrived but the cops asked him to “walk away”.
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Das further claimed that blood stains were on his shorts which is evidence of this statement.
However, he did not speak about how those stains got onto his clothes.
Das, who was seen on all media channels in the region till Wednesday evening, is now reported to go into hiding. But that is yet to be confirmed.
The incident also brings out another top cop, Runa Neog, an ASP-ranked official.
She was accused by Hasina Begum of being involved with alleged smugglers.
Hasina accused Neog of being involved with illegal syndicates in the region and claimed that she was not transferred from Lakhimpur for nearly seven years.