Overview

• Himan Gogoi, a 24-year-old former Shillong restaurant cook, was taken into custody on May 29 in central Assam’s Jorhat for two separate molestation incidents on May 19 and May 23.
• Viral CCTV clips showing a masked assailant lifting a student’s clothing and photographing her prompted a special team led by Additional SP Ivan B. Diengdoh to act.
• A coordinated raid at a relative’s house in Bamkukurachua village by Lahdoigarh Outpost and WPSI Lavinia Kongwang’s unit yielded the suspect’s mobile phone and other incriminating evidence.
• East Khasi Hills police secured a transit remand to bring Gogoi back to Shillong for formal interrogation and case processing.
• FIRs under relevant sections of the POCSO Act have been lodged at Sadar and Lumdiengjri stations as authorities urge any further victims to file reports.