Guwahati's most-wanted: Amar Jyoti Kalita, the man in the red t-shirt

Guwahati: The Assam police has arrested four people from the 11 that it has identified as part of a mob that molested a young woman in Guwahati, but the main accused, a man called Amar Jyoti Kalita, prominent in a red t-shirt in a video of the incident, is still missing.

The police believes Kalita instigated and led the mob that molested the victim. He is seen in the video at the forefront of the mob frenzy, pulling at the girl, pummeling her, he even tries to rip her shirt off. All through he is grinning and playing to the camera that he knows is recording the molestation. 

The police have said Kalita is a part-time actor and government employee with the Assam Electronics Development Corporation Ltd. (AMTRON); he has since been suspended.

Kalita's <a href=" http://www.facebook.com/amar.jyotikalita.7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> facebook page</a> confirms he works at Amtron. He wears a red t-shirt in his profile picture too, though the photo was put up on July 1. His last post is a photograph of himself on Tuesday, a day after the incident. In the same red t-shirt with stripes on the arms.

Kalita, according to his Facebook page, finished his schooling from the Guwahati Refinery High School in 1995. He likes to call himself Bond - the references to 007 are many. 

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The police, slammed for what is seen as inaction in the case - it arrived 40 minutes after the ghastly incident began and made its first arrest only after two days - has by now arrested four men and says it has identified seven others.

The men arrested are Dhanraj Basfar, a sweeper, Puspendu Das, a shopkeeper, Md Habijuddin, and BikashTiwari, who is just 18 years old. Apart from Kalita, those identified but not arrested are Rubul Ali, Debo Das, a man with the surname Baruah, Dipak Dey an auto driver, Tinku Deb and Bablu.

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