GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has announced that Assam government is setting up set up a fast-track court in Dokmoka in Karbi Anglong hill district to conduct trial of accused in June 8 mob lynching at Panjuri area in Dokmoka in which two promising youths from Guwahati – Nilotpol Das and Abhijit Nath were killed.
Sonowal informed that in view of the strong and popular demand from various sections of the people from all over the state to hand out exemplary punishment to the culprits involved in the mob lynching of the two youths, the state government had decided to set up a fast track court in Dokmoka to try the accused.
Sonowal said that no one involved in the gory incident of lynching of the two youths would be spared and the government would try facilitating exemplary punishment to the culprits as per the law of the land.
Meanwhile, Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the mob lynching incident at Dokmoka in Karbi Anglong district of the state. Taking a suo moto cognizance on the issue that has triggered mass protests in the state, the state rights panel has directed the district magistrate of Karbi Anglong for a thorough probe into the situation leading to the gruesome killing of the two youths from Guwahati. The AHRC had sent a team to Karbi Anglong to make on the spot inquiry about the incident.
The magisterial probe has been ordered by the AHRC as per the AHRC Case No. 2317/8/18-19 and another case AHRC 2318/8/18-19 that has been filed before the rights panel by All Assam Unemployed Association.
Meanwhile, representatives of 28 ethnic students groups including Karbi Students’ Association under the aegis of All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) have met the parents of slain Nitolpol Das and Abhijit Nath to share the grief of both the families. The ethnic students bodies have expressed their anguish over the incident and called upon the people of the state to remain calm and maintain age-old harmony given that the lynching was an act of a band of criminals , not of any particular community or tribe.