Leetul Gogoi, driver barged into house, alleges woman’s mother

BUDGAM: The family of the woman who accompanied Major Leetul Gogoi has alleged that the officer and his driver Sameer made an unsolicited visit to their Budgam home recently wearing civilian clothes.

“Sameer from Budgam, who works for the Army, barged into our home in middle of the night, more than 20 days ago, with the Major and asked us if anybody was threatening us. I couldn’t understand what he was saying and fell unconscious. Sensing trouble, they left immediately.

She has been lured into a trap. She is a child,” the mother of the woman, who lives in a makeshift tin shed in Budgam told ET. The family is constructing a house nearby.


She claimed that a month back too Sameer barged into their house and started a conversation without any reason. “I enquired about all this, but my daughter has refused to provide me with any information.

I think this Sameer is a pimp and should be hanged,” she said. Gogoi was taken to the police station on Wednesday morning after an altercation with locals, in which Sameer was also involved, after he was disallowed to check into a hotel as the woman accompanying him was a local.

The woman was allowed to join her family after a magistrate recorded her statement on Wednesday. As per her school record, Aadhaar card and bank details, she is not a minor. A police probe is on but family members said that they were in a ‘vulnerable position’ and pleaded that the case be closed.

“The woman is a major and her statement was recorded before a magistrate. As of now, no case has been made out of what happened at the hotel. The probe is on and we will see if anything else comes up,” a senior police official told ET.

A security establishment source too confirmed that no case has been registered by the police, nor any allegations of wrongdoing made against any Army personnel.

In Srinagar, Farooq Ahmad Dar, who Gogoi used as a human shield, held a protest march demanding action against the Major. The officer had tied Dar to an Army jeep and drove through a dozen villages during a bypoll in April 2017.