CID, Assam continues MacBook search in Bajali extortion case

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The CID probe to unearth the evidence in the Bajali extortion case continued on Thursday, with raids conducted at different places in the city.

The CID team intensified its search for one of the two MacBooks that Rabiul Islam gave to the Bajali police, allegedly under duress. The investigators had earlier recovered one MacBook kept hidden by former SP Siddhartha Buragohain. The other one, allegedly handed over to former ASP Gayatri Sonowal, is yet to be recovered.

A team from the CID on Thursday raided the residence of Gayatri Sonowal’s mother in the Survey area of Beltola, sources informed. This was not the first time that the house of the former ASP’s mother was searched. The CID had used metal detectors during the earlier raid at the residence of Sonowal’s mother in Guwahati. Another raid was carried out at an apartment belonging to a relative of ASP Sonowal, in the city’s Silpukhuri area, which was searched thoroughly, the sources said. The CID had earlier conducted raids at the official residence of former ASP Gayatri Sonowal at the 10th Assam Police Battalion in the city. The sleuths had also searched the luxurious car of Sonowal by taking apart each part of the car.

Meanwhile, the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court on Thursday remanded in judicial custody the six accused in connection with the Bajali corruption case. According to sources, the accused that were sent to judicial custody include Home Guards (drivers) Deepjoy Roy and Nabir Ahmed; middlemen Sahidul Islam and Kishore Kumar Baruah; former Bajali ASP Gayatri Sonowal and her husband Subhas Chander.

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