Sept. 2: Assam police have removed names and pictures of the six accused in the July 9 GS Road molestation case from “most wanted” list of its website.

The Telegraph on August 26 had reported how names and photographs of six of the 16 accused in the molestation case figured prominently in the most wanted list even as all have already been arrested or have surrendered.

Police sources said the website was updated and photographs of prime accused Amarjyoti Kalita and five others involved in the crime were put up on the website soon after the incident, have been removed from the list after media highlighted it.

“The photographs were put up in the most wanted list as they were absconding but we forgot to remove them even after their arrests. Instructions were issued immediately to our staff to remove the six persons’ name from the list and the staff were asked to update the website for public information,” a source said.

The Telegraph on August 26 found the photograph of Kalita figuring on the top of the most wanted list while five others (names not mentioned in the website) figured with their photographs though they are already in judicial custody after expiry of their initial police remand.

The police had sounded a countrywide alert after Kalita, a resident of Noonmati and the prime accused, went missing.

The five others were also caught on camera molesting a young girl on July 9 when she was coming out of a pub at Christanbasti after attending a party with friends.

The irregular update of website invited criticism. Many said the police website should be updated on daily basis as a website has been used by police in others states as an important tool of communication with the public.

“It is good to see the police taking note of media report and updating its most wanted list. But efforts should be made to update their website on daily basis like their counterparts in other states,” city-based social activist Ranjan Kumar Baruah today said.

“Efforts are on to streamline the functioning of the communication cell which maintains our website and the website may soon get a new look,” the police source said.