JORHAT: Eleven people, including the driver and the owner of the motorised country boat that sank in the Brahmaputra river on Wednesday afternoon at
Neematighat
here, were arrested on Sunday.
Of the total arrested, seven people have been produced before a local court at Jorhat that sent them for judicial custody, while four others have been kept at police custody here for interrogation.
Those sent to judicial custody are Gautam Kalita, Dhanbar Das, Jayanta Dutta, Jogen Das, Biju Kumar Das, Binud Baruah and Babul Chandra Neog. Of them, Dhanbar Das is the boat's driver. The other six are employees of the Inland Water Transport (IWT) Department.
The four, who have been kept in the police custody after being held from Majuli, are Pranjal Pamegam, Bipul Borah, Utpal Dutta and Gautam Kalita. Of them, Kalita is the boat's owner, while three others are IWT employees.
Jorhat police station officer-in-charge Chidananda Borah, who led the operation, told TOI: "We have arrested 11 people from Jorhat and Majuli in connection with the Nimatighat boat tragedy on Sunday. Seven of them have been sent to judicial custody and four others are kept in police custody for interrogation. They have been booked under Section 304 of the IPC.”
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