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North Lakhimpur, Oct 6: A court in North Lakhimpur has sent an official of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) to jail under the POCSO Act.
The accused, Mrinal Basumatari, a supervisor of the SAI centre at Shalalgaon in Lakhimpur, has been absconding since May this year, following which a case was registered against him for sexually abusing trainees at the sports centre.
Earlier, the authority of the SAI Regional Office in Guwahati also filed a complaint against him at Paltan Bazar police station.
The POCSO court here sent him to jail following his surrender on Thursday.
