Four members of BJP, including a woman councillor, have been arrested and remanded in judicial custody in connection with a case of defacement of the statue of priest and educator Don Bosco here.
Those arrested are councillor Sunita Gilmoria, her husband Anish Gilmoria, Raju Prasad Gupta and Raju Roy, according to FIR registered in the case. They were produced before Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Hazarika yesterday evening and remanded in judicial custody.
An FIR was lodged at the Bharalumukh police station following the defacement of the statue on Friday.
The four were booked under various sections of IPC, including 143 (being member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 153A (promoting enmity between classes) and 333 (volutarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), and 427 (mischief, and thereby causing loss or damage to the amount of Rs 50 or upwards), two of which two are non-bailable.
The police had sought the custody of Anish Gilmoria for five days which was denied by the CJM and he was also remanded in judicial custody.
A group of people had on Friday vandalised the statue and pelted stones at security forces at Bharalamukh on the banks of river Brahmaputra where it was scheduled to be installed.
The statue was to be installed in recognition of the work done for promotion of education by Don Bosco Salesian fathers, brothers and sisters, alumni and cooperators for over 90 years in the North-East since 1922, according to Don Bosco Information Service officials.
