Guwahati, July 15 (IBNS): The reporter of the news channel News Live who was accused by a leading RTI activist of fomenting a mob to carry out molestation of a teenaged girl on Monday night has resigned.
Gaurav Jyoti Neog, who had captured the brutal attack on the girl by a large number of men, has been accused of complicity in the crime by the RTI activist.
Right To Information (RTI) activist Akhil Gogoi alleged that the reporter had a role in the continuing molestation and that he can prove that with the unedited footage in possession.
Gogoi said in the unedited video a voice asking the mob to bring the girl to a well lit place should be tested by forensic experts.
He said he would hand over the unedited footage to National Commission for Women (NCW).
Neog has denied fomenting the crowd to molest the girl.
In a signed statement he said allegations levelled against him are malicious and wild.
His channel also stood by him.
Earlier amid allegations and counter-allegations over the incident of a mass molestation of a Guwahati girl on Monday night, two more arrests were made by police taking the total number of apprehensions to six till Sunday.
Of the several accused identified, five more are untraced in the incident in which a teenaged girl who emerged out of a pub after a birthday bash was assaulted and molested for over half an hour till police came to the spot.
One person in a car who helped the girl that night and called the police said he was shocked to see on TV later that even after the police came the girl's ordeal had continued.
A team of the National Commission of Women (NCW) on Saturday visited Guwahati and they said the victim was stubbed with cigarettes by her tormentors.
The Assam police on Saturday had released photographs of five absconding suspects including that of Amar Jyoti Kalita, one of the prime accused of the girl molestation case in Guwahati city on July 9 night.
Police have announced a cash reward for providing information of the accused persons at Rs 50,000 for Amar Jyoti Kalita and Rs 25,000 each for other four accused persons.
Assam chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had also set a 48 hour deadline on Saturday for the Assam police to nab the culprits, who were identified in video footage.