Guwahati Police forms SIT to probe rape, murder of girl

The Guwahati Police today said it has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under an ACP to probe the alleged rape and murder of a college girl in the city.
"The incident is very sad and unfortunate. We have formed an SIT to crack the case. The ACP of the Noonmati Range will head it. We are going full throttle," Guwahati Police Commissioner Mukesh Agrawal told reporters here.
Yesterday, the body of a 20-year old college student was found without any clothes in the city's Noonmati area, just few hours after she had left home.
"Though the exact details will be available after we get the post mortem report, but seeing the condition of the body, we are treating it a case of rape and murder. It is a heinous crime," Agrawal said.

The police have found "some leads" and would be able to solve the case very soon, he said.
The Guwahati Police has also formed another SIT to probe the brutal murder of a woman and her two daughters by by her husband, who was going through depression due to financial issues.

Agrawal said the murder was very "heinous" and deserved special attention, and so an SIT has been formed under an ACP.
The husband, identified as Pranab Mahanta, had killed his family members on June 20 and then left his house in the early morning in his car, which was recovered from Saraighat bridge on Brahmaputra in Guwahati.

It was presumed that Mahanta committed suicide by jumping into the river, but his body was yet to be found, the Police Commissioner added.