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Wasn't forced to check into hotel with Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi

According to her statement presented in court, she had talked to Sameer Malla and Major Gogoi over phone and told them that she would be waiting at Magam

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Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi of 53 Rashtriya Riffles got a major breather on Wednesday when the Jammu and Kashmir Police told the local court that the young woman who accompanied him to a hotel was not a minor and she had gone with the army officer on her own will.

Major Gogoi, who shot to fame for using a 26-year-old youth Farooq Ahmad Dar as a human shield against stone pelting last year, was caught checking into a local hotel in Srinagar with a young woman on May 23. He was later detained by the police along with the woman and accomplice Sameer Malla after the hotel authorities reported the matter to the cops.

Police submitted a detailed report to the Chief Judicial Magistrate along with the birth certificate and the statement of the woman made before the city magistrate under section 164 CrPC to the court on May 23. As per the school records, the woman was born on October 13, 1998.

According to her statement presented in court, she had talked to Sameer Malla and Major Gogoi over phone and told them that she would be waiting at Magam. They headed to Srinagar from the designated meeting point.

"I was going with them on my free will; I was not coerced. As planned, I went with them at 10 am," she said.

The woman noted that she became friends with Major Gogoi over Facebook. "His Facebook name is Ubaid Armani. I came to know later that his real name is Gogoi and he lives in Beerwa. I did not know at first that he is an Indian Army officer," she said.

She said there was an altercation at the hotel after they were refused a room there. "The hotel authorities refused to give us a room because of me. After this, the people at the hotel called the police and they took Gogoi, Sameer and me with them," she said.

Her mother told DNA that Major Gogoi and his accomplice had visited their residence twice few months ago. "He made his first visit late in the evening. When I saw him I fell unconscious. He was wearing a pheran (long cloak). The purpose of visit was unknown to us; we were only told that they were there to inquire about our well being," she said.

Indian Army has already ordered a court of enquiry into the hotel fracas and promised to take appropriate action after the probe is complete. The court of enquiry was ordered on May 25, after Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said Major Gogoi will be awarded exemplary punishment if found guilty for any wrongdoing.

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