The Assam government paid Rs 25 (Rs 37 with GST) to a firm for each 200-ml bottle of sanitiser it ordered. To another, with links to Himanta Biswa Sarma, it paid Rs 231 for every 500-ml bottle and Rs 100.30 for every 100-ml bottle – Rs 137 and Rs 81 more per bottle respectively if the former firm's rates were to be applied.
RTI responses show inconsistencies in the prices of PPE kits supplied to Assam's National Health Mission. Several companies linked to the Sarma family also have common, Kolkata-based investors.
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GUWAHATI: Six people, including the editor-in-chief and news editor of a Guwahati-based portal, were arrested on Wednesday for alleged “salacious” intent while releasing a picture of Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma hugging his minor daughter, reports Rokibuz Zaman.
Digital news channel Pratibimba Live, which has since gone blank with the message “This website has been suspended due to non-payment”, apologised for not mentioning that the girl in the picture was Sarma’s daughter and blamed “others” for sharing it with the intent to defame him.
Police swung into action after Sarma’s wife filed an FIR on Tuesday. They said four people from the organisation were arrested and have been remanded in police custody for five days. Besides editor-in-chief Taufiquddin Ahmad, news editor Asif Iqbal Hussain and staff members Nazmul Hussain and Nazrul Hussain, police picked up two others identified as Puli Muchchary of Bodoland Digital and Nang Noyonmoni
Assam: Two journalists arrested for sharing photo of minister, minor daughter with salacious intent
A case has been filed under sections of the POCSO Act.
18 Feb, 2021
At least two journalists are among six people arrested by the Assam police on Wednesday for sharing a photo of Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his minor daughter with salacious intent, the
Pratibimba Live, along with two other employees of the organisation.
Express reported that one employee each of news portals
Bodoland Digital and
Spotlight Assam were also arrested.
The websites allegedly shared a photo of Sarma and his daughter without clarifying that she was his daughter. A case was registered under Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (insulting modesty of a woman) and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
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