Akhil Gogoi who was jailed in December 2019 may be freed, the Guwahati-based special NIA court said. He was acquitted in the second of the two cases filed against him in connection with the anti-citizen (Amendment) Act.
Akhil Gogoi May Get Free From the Guwahati Central Jail Soon
After one and a half years of being jailed, MLA and a local party President Akhil Gogoi’s lawyers revealed that he might be freed from the Guwahati Central jail soon. Gogoi and his three associates (Dharjya Kowar, Manas Konwar and Bitu Sonowal) were accused in two cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. They all were cleared of all charges in the first case.
Akhil Gogoi was elected from the eastern Assam’s Sibsagar seat in the March-April assembly polls and lodged in the Guwahati central jail. He is currently under treatment at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital.
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The National Investigation Agency had taken up the cases against him and his associates on the bases of two FIRs registered at the Chandmari police station in Guwahati and Chabua police stations in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
Gogoi’s lawyer Rahul Sensowa spoke to the media and said that the NIA special court released him on Thursday in the Chandmari case.
Akhil Gogoi Is The First Lawmaker To Have Election From Jail
Gogoi and his associates were charged with the charges of criminal conspiracy, sedition, and promoting enmity between groups on grounds such as religion, race, and language. Raijor Dal’s working president Bhasco De Saikai said that the court’s verdict in the favour of the jailed only shows (alleged) the BJP government’s attempts to target the party, President.
Akhil Gogoi is the first lawmaker in Assam to win an election from jail after his octogenarian mother, son Nasiketa, and prominent rights leaders of the country campaigned for him.
