GUWAHATI: Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports of an alleged rape of a minor girl in a child shelter home in upper Assam’s Sivasagar district last month, the Gauhati high court on Friday issued notices to the state government, Assam state commission for protection of child rights and state police. The high court has directed them to file their replies within January 28.The high court has also asked the director general of Assam police and the Sivasagar police to file the updated status report of the ongoing investigation into the case.The woman was allegedly raped by one Parag Goswami, the superintendent of the shelter home where she was residing. The matter came to light after the woman tried to commit suicide last month, following the alleged failure of the district police to act on her complaint. On December 21, Sivasagar Police filed a chargesheet in the case, two days after the woman had tried to kill herself.The woman also alleged that the house-mother of the shelter home, identified as Gita Kakati, used to torture her. The woman survived the suicide attempt and was later shifted to the city for medical treatment and counselling. “Goswami has raped and sexually assaulted me several times. I am ashamed to speak about these things over and over again to different authorities. I am in great mental stress. But nobody believed me and thought that I am mentally ill. I want justice,” the woman had earlier said.In a letter to Utsah, a child rights organisation, the woman alleged that Goswami used to drug and then rape her during her stay at the shelter home.

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