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HC overturns their conviction by trial court in 2019 by 'giving them the benefit of doubt' as prosecution could not prove their guilt

A division bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Mridul Kumar Kalita today acquitted five accused in the Dhemaji bomb blast on August 15, 2004, of all...

The Gauhati High Court has acquitted all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji. The Assam government has asked the Director General of Police to study the judgment and, if legal advice is obtained, they will appeal to the Supreme Court. The blast, carried out by the proscribed militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), 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.

In a defamation case filed against Congress leader and disqualified MP Rahul Gandhi for allegedly maligning BJP and its then-president leader Amit Shah by calling him a Murder Accused, the Complainant...