{"id":6743,"date":"2013-01-03T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2013-01-03T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T11:20:26","slug":"assam-congress-leader-accused-of-rape-beaten-up-by-angry-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/assam-congress-leader-accused-of-rape-beaten-up-by-angry-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Congress leader accused of rape, beaten up by angry villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bikram Singh Brahma a local Congress party leader from Chirang district of Assam was beaten up by angry villagers after allegedly raping a woman, who is a mother of two. The incident took place at around 2 am in Salbari village a remote area in Chirang district on Thursday. Bikram who is a Congress co-ordination Committee chief convener of the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD), allegedly entered the woman&#8217;s house forcefully and raped her. It was only then the woman cried out for help, that the villagers came to her rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The villagers nabbed Bikram and beat him up till the police reached the site. The local police said that, they have taken the woman&#8217;s statement and have registered a case against Bikram.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of the Panchayat elections in February, the incident became a huge embarrassment for the Congress party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bikram Singh Brahma a local Congress party leader from Chirang district of Assam was beaten up by angry villagers after allegedly raping a woman, who is a mother of two. The incident took place at around 2 am in Salbari village a remote area in Chirang district on Thursday. Bikram who is a Congress co-ordination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}