GUWAHATI: The capital city is fast turning into a city of crime, with incidents of theft, robbery, murder happening every day.
On Saturday, a woman was robbed of her gold chain at gun-point by unidentified miscreants in broad daylight in Rajgarh area of Guwahati.
The incident reportedly occurred at Rajgarh's Bye lane no 9.
According to sources, two bike-borne miscreants waylaid and robbed the woman by brandishing a gun and before anyone could react, they sped away with a gold chain that she was wearing.
The victim, a woman identified as Antarika Lahkar, is a teacher at Icon Academy, a private junior college located nearby. The teacher was almost at the doorstep of the academy when she was stopped and robbed.
After the daring robbery, a case was registered at Chandmari police station and a manhunt to apprehend the perpetrators was launched, police said. The police are examining CCTV footage in a bid to identify the robbers and the bike they came on, a source stated.
In an earlier case, on Nov 7, unidentified miscreants robbed ornaments off a woman by brandishing a gun in the Dispur area of Guwahati. It is the area where the capital of Assam is located and is a disgrace to the law enforcement agencies.
The victim of the armed robbery was also a teacher identified as Rita Kalita.
The incident occurred when the woman was on her way to drop her child in school. The miscreants reportedly stopped the shocked woman, aimed a gun at her and before she could react, they snatched the gold chain that she was wearing on her neck and scooted away.
The Dispur Police immediately launched a manhunt to locate the culprits but they could not unearth any clue about the miscreants.
In a dubious record, for the fifth consecutive year, Assam recorded the highest rate of crimes against women in 2021, according to the 'Crime in India' report of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) for last year.
The rate is calculated as the number of crimes recorded for every one lakh people. For instance, if it is 10, it means that 10 in every one lakh of the population recorded a crime.
According to the NCRB data, the rate of crimes against women in Assam last year stood at 168.3, marking an increase from 154.3 in 2020. The next highest on the list were Odisha with a rate of 137.8, Haryana with 119.7, and Rajasthan with 105.4.
On top of it all, Assam was also named as the state with the most violent crimes recorded in 2021. Statistics in the bureau also revealed that Assam has continued to maintain the trend of recording an increase in such crimes after a dip in the previous year.
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