Tura, Aug 10: The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Garo Hills, Tura on Wednesday remanded under custody BJP State Vice President and Tura MDC, Bernard N. Marak alias Rimpu, to 14 days of Judicial custody.
He was sent to days Judicial Custody in connection with Tura Women PS Case No. 105(07)2022 u/s 370(3) IPC r/w 3/4/5/6/7 Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.
However, the same court has also allowed the Investigating Officer of Tura PS Case No. 166(07)2022 u/s 109/ 110/ 120/ 120B/ 121/ 121A IPC r/w 4/5 Explosive Substances Act, 1908 to arrest him in the instant case.
Accordingly, he will be arrested later on Wednesday from Tura Jail and produced in court on Thursday.
The case so far
Earlier, Bernard was sent to 8 days of police custody in Tura by the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on July 28, 2022, after he was brought to Tura from Hapur city of Uttar Pradesh where he was caught after a pan-India lookout notice was issued against him by Meghalaya Police after he failed to surrender.
Then, on August 5, 2022, the Court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Tura had remanded him to further 6 more days in police custody.
On the evening of July 22, 2022, West Garo Hills police had raided Bernard’s private farmhouse at Edenbari in the outskirt of Tura, where they claimed to have busted a prostitution racket and arrested 73 persons and rescued 6 children besides seizure of liquors and unused contraceptives. Few days later, they recovered several crossbows with arrows and a large number of gelatin sticks used in bomb making.
