Dhemaji Blast Case: Assam CM asks DGP to study the HC judgement; if legal advice given, govt to move SC

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Gauhati High Court acquitting all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji, Assam government has asked the Director General of police to study the judgement and if the government gets legal advice it will appeal before the Supreme Court.

Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday in Guwahati said, “Dhemaji blast was inquired long back. I have asked the DGP to study the judgement and if we get legal advice we will appeal in the Supreme court.

Let us see how the honorable judges have arrived at this conclusion. The copy of judgement was not available till yesterday.
The Gauhati High Court on Thursday acquitted all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji.

The blast had killed 18 people, including 13 schoolchildren.

The explosion at the Independence Day celebrations was done by proscribed militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Six people had been convicted in 2019.

The Dhemaji District and Sessions Court had sentenced Lila Gogoi, Dipanjali Borgohain, Muhi Handique and Jatin Dowari to life imprisonment, and handed a four-year jail term to Prashanta Bhuyan and Hemen Gogoi.

The convicts had challenged the verdict in the high court.

Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Mridul Kumar Kalita in a order observed, “In view of the reasons stated above, as the Prosecution has not been able to prove the guilt of the appellants in respect of the charges framed against them, they are acquitted of the charges framed against them, by giving them the benefit of doubt.
«As we find the impugned judgment dated 04.07.2019, passed by the learned Trial Court in Sessions Case No. 127(DH)/2011 is not sustainable, the same is accordingly set aside.