GUWAHATI: A prominent Congress leader of lower Assam , who is the chief coordinator of the party in Bodoland Territorial Council area has been accused by a woman of attempt to rape in her house at Salbari in Chirang district on Wednesday night.

The accused politician Bikrmasingh Brahma was the Congress candidate from Sapaguri assembly constituency in Baksa district in the 2011 assembly election which he lost.

The villagers of Salbari beat up the politician before handing him over to police. Though he has not yet been arrested, but he is in police custody.

Assam Police IGP in charge of BTC GP Singh told TOI, “Prima facie there is a case of sexual assault by Brahma. As soon as the FIR is lodged and the case is registered he will be arrested. He is now with the police.”

The IGP said that Brahma might have been sexually abusing the woman for past several months in lieu of making her a beneficiary of government schemes. “After he forcibly entered her house last night, she raised an alarm and the villagers caught him and handed him over to police after beating him up,” the IGP said.

President of media cell of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, Haren Das said that if the charges are proved, definite action will be taken against him.