A 58-year-old senior employee of the North Eastern Council, Meghalaya, has been remanded to 14-day judicial custody after he was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 21-year-old female coworker. The accused identified as Shambhu Sharma is a cashier at the NEC. The arrest was made after the young woman filed her complaint at the Laitumkhrah police station in Shillong, in which she had narrated her alleged assault. The complaint mentioned that Sharma had asked the woman to accompany him to a bank in Shillong for assistance in some work-related task.
Sharma was able to convince the young woman to come by his apartment to pick up his tie after he had gone to the bank. She claimed that as soon as she entered, Sharma violently sexually assaulted her. On Monday, the event happened about 1:30 p.m. Sharma, 34, was taken into custody, had a medical examination, and was later brought before a District and Sessions Court in Meghalaya today following the filing of a First Information Report.
A case has been registered at Laitumkhrah Police Station, case number 147/2024. Sharma has been framed with charges under Sections 127(2), Section 74, and Section 64(2)(b) of the BNS for the offenses of wrongful confinement, assault with intent to outrage the modesty of a woman, and rape. The police have begun gathering additional evidence against the aforementioned defendants as part of their ongoing investigation. The episode happened during a period when the rape and murder of a young doctor in Kolkata had the entire nation in uproar. This example from Meghalaya adds even more anxiety to the tremendous indignation and cries for justice that followed that regrettable occurrence.
