Journalist who filmed Guwahati molestation resigns
July 16, 2012 11:10
A week after a teenager was
molested and assaulted by a mob outside a pub in Guwahati, only six
suspects have been rounded up and arrested. Assam Chief Minister
Tarun Gogoi's deadline to the police to arrest all the accused,
identified in the video, ends today.
The role of the journalist, Gaurav Jyoti Neog, who captured the incident on camera is also under scrutiny. Activists allege that he instigated the mob. He has since resigned from the Guwahati-based news channel, pending probe.
The role of the journalist, Gaurav Jyoti Neog, who captured the incident on camera is also under scrutiny. Activists allege that he instigated the mob. He has since resigned from the Guwahati-based news channel, pending probe.
Neog said the charges against him were 'malicious and wild'. "There are allegations levelled against me that I orchestrated the molestation on the girl on GS Road on the night on July 9. I strongly deny and refute the allegations as malicious and wild," he said in a signed statement.
Neog said he had carried out his professional duties as a
responsible journalist by asking for a camera unit from his office and
filmed the "nightmarish incident to fulfill the social responsibility of
identifying the molesters and get them punished."
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