Taking suo motu cognizance, Assam State Commission for Women today registered a case against alleged rape and murder of two girls by four youths near the city.
In an official release, the Commission condemned the incident and asked the DGP and SSP to take immediate steps.
A team from the Commission, comprising its Chairperson Meera Barooah and members Sudha Srivastava and Monalisa Chowdhury, visited the Azara locality after local media started reporting the incident.
The Commission also expressed its serious concern over rising incidents of women harassment in Guwahati.
The release said the Commission met the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court and urged to try all such cases in fast track courts.
One of the bodies of the two girls was spotted last night by local people near the railway track, while the other was recovered from the same area this morning. The bodies, which were without any cloth, are yet to be identified.
Angry people from the area and Guwahati, besides various women organisations, gheraoed the Azara police station demanding the alleged four culprits be handed over to them to be "punished for raping and killing the two women".
City Senior Superintendent of Police A P Tiwari, however, said one of the accused his confessional statement had said that the two women died due to a road accident.
Post mortem reports would reveal the exact cause of their death, he added.
