The Guwahati Police has arrested a senior faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) on the charges of raping a non-teaching staff of the premiere education institution of the region.
Dean of Academic Affairs of the IITG, AK Ghosal was arrested on Tuesday based on a FIR lodged by a non-teaching staff of the institute saying that she has been raped by Ghosal. “The victim has lodged an FIR against Ghoshal in the All Women Police Station in the city last week. Based on the FIR, we have first detained the accused and then arrested him,” said Senior Superintendent of Police (Guwahati) AP Tiwary.
“We have cross examined the accused and got some evidences against him and it was found that we need to arrest him for proper investigation. However, before production in court he confessed everything yesterday,” the SSP said, while adding that the police did not seek his remand as he confessed his crime.
“Ghosal was arrested under section 376 (2) (b) of the IPC. The court has forwarded him into judicial custody,” the SSP said. Ghosal has been working in the institution since more than a decade and that he had assumed the current position only seven months back.