Tezpur Central Jail is a prison located at the center of Guwahati city in Assam, India.

[citation needed] At least 28 inmates of the Tezpur Central Jail in Assam have tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19 virus on Wednesday, 29 July 2021.

[3] Mrinmoy Dawka, the superintendent of Tezpur Central jail in Sonitpur district, was arrested on Thursday following complaints of sexual assault by two women.

He had allegedly sexually assaulted the wife of an inmate on the promise of releasing her husband.

The second case is of him outraging the modesty of the wife of a jail warden," said Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta, superintendent of police (SP), Sonitpur.