In yet another incident of violence against women in the Northeast, a woman journalist was shot at and critically wounded by unidentified miscreants on Sunday when she was entering her office in Itanagar.
Security sources in Itanagar told this newspaper over telephone that Tongam Rina, associate editor of Arunachal Times, one of the oldest daily of the frontier state was shot at from a very close range.
Informing that the incident took place at about 6.30 pm, security sources said that Ms Rina was shifted to a hospital where her condition was stated to be critical.
Thirty-four-year-old Rina, who was also the president of Arunachal Pradesh Working Women Journalist Association, has received bullet injury in her lower abdomen and was operated by doctors at R.K. Mission Hospital in Itanagar.
The Arunachal Times is the first and one of the oldest English newspapers of the frontier state which is owned by former chief minister Gegong Apang.
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Key accused not spotted in orissa, says state dgp
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO
Bhubaneswar, July 15
The Bhubaneswar Commissionerate police on Sunday launched a massive search operation for Amarjyoti Kalita, one of the key accused in the Guwahati molestation case, here at the local railway station and a number of hotels and lodgings, but to no avail.
The search operation was carried out following telephonic interaction between the Assam director general of police (DGP) Jayanta Narayan Choudhury and commissioner of police (CP) Sunil Ray, sources said.
The Assam director general of police told the commissioner of police in the morning that a phone call was purportedly made by Amarjyoti from near the Bhubaneswar railway station area and requested him to track the accused.
Within minutes, the special squads of the Bhubaneswar police carried out a massive search operation in various parts of the city but the accused was nowhere in sight.