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Major Gogoi lands in yet another controversy, army order CoI against him
girl claims they know each other as Facebook friends, Omar sanctions Rs 1.30 lakh for construction of house for her family



Jammu, May 26, (Scoop News)-After ordering Court of Inquiry (CoI) against Major Letul Gogoi’s conduct, the Army chief General Bipin Rawat had vowed of an exemplary punishment in case the officer was found at fault of any misconduct.

‘Any rank of Indian arm, if he does anything wrong, an action will be taken. If Major Gogoi has done something wrong, I will punish him and the punishment will be exemplary,’ he promised.

Major Gogoi who allegedly landed in another controversy on Wednesday, when the hotel staff informed the police that an army officer and a man were creating ruckus in the hotel lobby after they were denied to check into an already booked room. He (Gogoi) was accompanying a local girl. The statement of the hotel staff was recorded and they claimed that they did it without any pressure or intimidation.

They said that army officer and local girl entered the hotel lobby together and wanted to check into the already booked room. They, however, contradicted the media report that Major Gogoi had already checked into the previously booked room as was informed by police to reporters.

He (Maj Gogoi) was briefly questioned by the police before handing him over to his unit at Badgam.

Last year, he had invited controversy when he made a youth human shield to elude the stone throwers during parliamentary by-elections and rescued polling staff and other personnel under siege, safely out of the polling booth.

According to well informed sources, the Kashmiri girl with whom Major Gogoi went to check in at a hotel on Wednesday has told a Judicial Magistrate that she was Facebook friends with him and had gone to see him of her own free will even as her mother contests her claim. She recorded her statement before a Magistrate under Section 164 Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) which is admissible as evidence in the court of the law.

The girl (name withheld) has testified before the Sub Judicial Magistrate (SDM) under section 164 Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and asserted that she was friends with the Major on the social networking site Facebook.

When asked to explain, the girl told the Magistrate that she came in contact with him through Facebook account named as Aadil Adnan. She said that just within a month she came to know that Aadil Adnan was none other than Major Gogoi who had used pseudo identity. She informed that thereafter Major Gogoi disclosed his real identity to her and subsequently they became good friends.

“I wanted to go for an outing and I am here because of my own free will,” she told the Magistrate while recording her statement in presence of the of a police official who had been assigned to probe the matter, sources said.

During the questioning, it also came to light that the girl is an adult as she showed her Aadhar Card which mentioned her year of birth as 1999, the sources informed. However, the age would be confirmed though other means and source. She also showed her bank and other corroborative documents that she was an adult.

The girl, who belongs to Badgam district, said that she and Major Gogoi knew each other and had met him on several occasions on similar outings in the past. When asked why she had come to Srinagar and then to the hotel, she replied, “just for an outing and it was my own free will”, the sources said.

The sources said when she was asked about the second person, the driver Sameer Ahmed, who also belongs to Badgam district, the girl replied that he was known to her but when challenged by the Magistrate about Sameer’s family background, she could not, however, tell names of his parents.

Meanwhile, the former chief minister and the leader of the opposition in the lower house of the state legislature, Omar Abduallah, has released rupees 1.30 lakh to the girl who was taken into preventive custody along with Major Gogoi from a hotel on Wednesday. Incidentally, Omar, is a lawmaker from Beerwah assembly constituency, in Badgam district.

According to Tanveer Sadiq, a political secretary of the working president of the National Conference, in his tweet that party functionaries went to the girls place and found her family in extreme poverty and living in a tin shed.

He said the Omar has released rupees 1.30 lakh for construction of the house from his constituency development fund (CDF)

“This may please be done on the same pattern as is being done under IAY and PMAY scheme,’ said a letter written by Sadiq to Deputy Commissioner- Badgam. ...
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