GUWAHATI: Sumit Kumar Paul, the driver of the container truck which rammed into Assam Police woman sub-inspector Junmoni Rabha's vehicle on Tuesday, killing her, was arrested after he surrendered at Jakhalabandha police station. Paul hails from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. He had been on the run from Tuesday.
The truck rammed into Junmoni's personal vehicle on National Highway 37 in Nagaon district.
The mystery into her death has deepened after a person surfaced who claimed to be a witness to the incident and an audio clip between a policeman and an unknown person on the incident went viral on Thursday.
The "witness", Pranab Das, who hails from Bokakhat, claimed before media that while driving from Guwahati to Bokakhat on the night of the incident, he saw a container truck ram into a stationary personal vehicle from about 30 metres away. He said he also saw a body inside the smaller vehicle, which later turned out to be that of Junmoni. Das has been detained by CID for questioning.
An audio clip of conversation between a policeman and an unknown person went viral on social media on Thursday where the policeman claimed that Junmoni's death was not accidental but she was "murdered".
The policeman allegedly claimed that Junmoni was killed with a rod in the morning in Nagaon town and her vehicle was taken towards Jakhalabandha, stopped at a place where a truck hit it.
However, the authenticity of the audio clip, which is yet to be examined by the CID, has not been ascertained.
A CID team, which reached Nagaon on Wednesday for investigation after DGP GP Singh transferred the case to the department, interrogated the officer in-charge of Haibargaon police station, Abhajyoti Rabha, along with a few others.
Singh on Thursday said, "CID is investigating the case and any comment at this moment will be prejudging the investigation and giving a it wrongful direction. Let CID investigate with a free hand. Action will be initiated based on the investigation reports."
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