What is perceived as a henious act by the civilized world, the Guwahati minor girl molestation case, is slowly being daubed with political colours. Now the incident is not just the outraging of modesty of a teenage girl, but that of a conspiracy against Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi by a TV channel.

The chief minister Tarun Gogoi has said that an inquiry will decide if there was a conspiracy against him in the telecast of the July 9 molestation case by a television channel. "We want to go to the bottom of the case. I cannot say with certainty that it was a conspiracy as I don’t have any evidence," he said at a press conference on Tuesday without naming the channel. This statement of the CM came hours after the resignation of the channel’s editor-in-chief Atanu Bhuyan who quit expressing doubts over an impartial inquiry into the allegations that a journalist from his network had instigated the incident outside a pub on the night of July nine. Rubbishing the charges, the chief minister asked Bhuyan as to why he was apprehensive about the probe by the CID saying the editor-in-chief should have courage to face it.

The channel is owned by the wife of a minister in the state. The channel has been under the scanner after RTI activist Akhil Gogoi had 'exposed' the journalist. In the footage which Gogoi managed to get hold of, the journalist was allegedly heard telling the mob to strip the girl. And at the end of it, the victim was heard blaming the journalist for the incident.