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Guwahati : The Gauhati High Court has directed to shift the trial and hearing of Assam’s Karbi Anglong mob lynching case to Nagaon.
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday ordered to shift the case to Nagaon from Diphu to avoid any local influence.
A division bench of Gauhati High Court comprised by Chief Justice Ajit Singh and Justice Manojit Bhuyan had directed the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagaon to begin the trial and to hear the case in the fast track court.
The Gauhati High Court has registered a suo-moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in connection with the lynching incident.
Earlier, the Assam Judicial department had proposed to shift the trial of the mob lynching case out from Karbi Anglong for free and fair and submitted opinions to the state Home department and the state Home department placed it before the High Court.
On June 8, two friends Nilotpal Das and Abhijeet Nath had gone to a picnic spot of Kangthilangso waterfalls under Dokmoka police station in Karbi
Anglong.
When they returned from the area, their black colour SUV, were stopped at Panjuri Kachari by a group of irate villagers.
The villagers had stopped the SUV after rumours spread that, two unknown young men had abducted a child and fled in a black car.
After stopping the car, a mob had attacked on the car and also dragged out the youths.
The youths were brutally beaten to death by the mob.
Following the incident, Karbi Anglong police had registered two cases (no – 33/2018 and 34/2018) under section 302, 341, 427, 143, 144, 147, 148, 149, 109, 332, 186 of IPC at Dokmoka police station and arrested 48 persons for their alleged involvement in connection with it.
Assam police on Saturday had filed the chargesheet in the sensational Karbi Anglong mob lynching incident.
The chargesheet contained 844 pages of charges against the accused along with 104-page case diary and has as many as 71 witnesses including police personnel.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
