Days after the sensational news of Jayaraj and Fenix of South India and the killing of Jayanta Bora in Jorhat, Assam, a similar incident happened on 20th July 2020 in GMCH, Guwahati, Assam that sent shock waves across the state.
The development took place when Rajesh Chetri, an aspiring law student visited Gauhati Medical College and Hospital recently, to fetch some medicines for his friend at a distant. At GMCH’s main gate, the home guard was seated very leniently when Rajesh entered.
After entering and exiting from the same entrance more than once, he noticed that the home guards, who were in duty to check the crowd’s body temperature, were reluctant of their job. Almost many entered the hospital without being screened through the front gate.
When Rajesh started asking the guard of their leniency, they started revolting back and argued that the thermal meter was not working. The scene ended into a heated argument between the two. Rajesh began screening the entire circumstance to be on the safer side.
In the video footage, Rajesh can be seen in a blood-soaked shirt, and his head with a bandage. Although there is still no clear evidence that whether the victim hit himself by chance or the two had a physical scuffle, Rajesh claims that those home guard harassed him and had beaten him.
After the trail, an FIR has been lodged in Bhangagarh Police Station. According to the sources it is stated that the cell phone of the victim has been taken in the custody.
The news of Rajesh and the Home guard, however, has gone viral over Facebook and WhatsApp.
To note the currently active cases of COVID-19 in Assam are more than 7000 in number and increasing each day.