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Guwahati : The governor of Assam had accepted the recommendations by the state advisory board of National Security Act (NSA) to arrest Assam’s farmer leader Akhil Gogoi under NSA act and now Gogoi needs to wait for at least a year to release from jail.
The farmer leader and RTI activist was re-arrested by the Assam police on September 25 last, who was earlier arrested on charge of threatening to wage war against the country by allegedly urging the indigenous people of Assam to take up AK-47 rifle to protect their rights.
According to the reports, the 3-member state advisory board headed by retired Judge of Gauhati High Court PG Agarwala had recently took hearing of the investigating officers of the cases loadged against Akhil Gogoi and sent their recommendations to the Assam governor to arrest Akhil Gogoi under NSA act.
On Saturday, Assam home department issued a notification after the governor accepted the recommendations by the state advisory board of NSA.
The state advisory board had started hearing process from October 22 last.
Meanwhile, the leader of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), who is now presently lodged in jail, can apply for his bail before the high court after the state advisory board’s verdict.
Gogoi was re-arrested by the Nagaon police from the premises of district judge court in Dibrugarh in presence of a magistrate in connection with a case registered at Jakhalabandha police station (case no 139/2016 under sections 120/120 (B)/147/148/149/435 of IPC) related to the eviction drive in Kaziranga last year.
Earlier, Akhil Gogoi was arrested by the Dibrugarh police from his residence in Golaghat town on September 13 evening in connection with the case (180/2017 under sections 120 (B)/121/124 (A)/109/153/153 (A)/34 of IPC) registered at Moran police station against him.
Assam police had also slapped 33 other cases against the farmer leader where as many as 12 cases have been registered against Gogoi out of which four cases registered each in Nagaon, Lakhimpur, one each in Guwahati, Golaghat, Dibrugarh and Dhemaji.
The Assam farmer leader was earlier arrested by the Dibrugarh police after he allegedly threatened to take up arms to protect the indigenous people in the state in view of the BJP-led Union government attempt to grant citizenship to the hindu Bangladeshi people.
On the other hand, an umbrella body of 147 farmers’ organizations from across the country will launch a campaign on November 21 from Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi with a demand to release Akhil Gogoi.
Nearly 200 members of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Saturday had left to New Delhi to attend the agitation programme.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
