Guwahati, June 29: Guwahati superintendent of police Hiren Nath today submitted a report to Assam director-general of police H.K. Deka on the alleged attempt of an additional SP to extort Rs 2 lakh from a Guwahati Refinery employee.

A departmental inquiry was ordered against H.K. Medhi after the employee, Ajay Singh, lodged an FIR with Noonmati police.

Singh had stated in the FIR that he had been taken to an undisclosed location in the Chatribari locality of the city by two of Medhi’s bodyguards on Friday.

Nath declined details of the probe saying, “We went into the entire incident to find out the truth, based on the claims of both the accuser and the accused.”

According to Singh, the two bodyguards forcefully got into his Maruti car when it halted at a traffic point near the Kamrup deputy commissioner’s court, forcing him to drive to a house at Chatribari.

Medhi was allegedly waiting in the house. Singh further alleged that the police official intimidated him, demanding Rs 2 lakh.

The city SP said Medhi claimed that Singh had tried to bribe him with Rs 2 lakh after he was caught in a compromising position with a girl at a public place in Hatigaon.

Medhi also claimed that he had let Singh off on humanitarian grounds the same evening.

Youth rescued

Our correspondent

Agartala, June 29: Tripura youth Soumen De, who has been held hostage by criminals in Assam, was rescued last night by police from Khusarimari Char, a river island of the Brahmaputra, 212 km off Guwahati.

The unemployed youth had gone to Guwahati in search of employment, but fell prey to the gang of criminals who abducted him on June 18 and demanded Rs 20 lakh for his release. Assam police had launched a hunt for rescuing the youth, alerting all the police stations in the state.

Assam home minister Rockybul Hussain personally informed Tripura Opposition leader Ratan Nath about the rescue. Chief minister Manik Sarkar and Nath have thanked Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, home minister Hussain and the police force of the neighbouring state for the “exemplary action”.