GUWAHATI: Gauhati High Court on Tuesday ordered that the trial of Dokmoka (Karbi Anglong) mob lynching case to Nagaon District and Sessions Court in Assam from Diphu court in Karbi Anglong. The High Court also asked Nagaon court to conduct the trial in a fast track court.
The High Court issued the order in connection with a suo moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by it.
It may be mentioned that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Assam police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against 48 people who were allegedly involved in the mob-lynching of two Guwahati youths at Panjuri under Dokmoka police station in Central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on June 8 last.
The two Guwahati youths–Nilotpal Das, 29, and Abhijeet Nath, 30,–were lynched by a mob at Panjuri suspecting them to be child lifters while they were returning from nearby Kansi Langso waterfall in the district.
The chargesheet has been filed under different sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 302, 341, 427, 143, 144, 147, 148, and 149 besides 109 of CRPC.
In the wake of submission of the chargesheet, mother of one of the victim youths, Abhijeet Nath had demanded before the media that the trial should be shifted from Diphu court in Karbi Anglong to some other courts in the state.