Lifer for 4 by Udalguri Court

Shajid Khan · 12 December 2015 · 8121 views

The District and Sessions court of Udalguri on Friday sentenced four persons, including a women who were accused in a murder of a farmer at Dimakuchi under Panery police station in Udalguri district. The four accused are Nagen Deka,Gahin Deka,Sarat Deka and Pranita Deka,who severely beat one Sukeswar Medhi a farmer at his paddy field way back on July 4 in 2007 leading to his death.

Ritamoni Medhi wife of the deceased lodged an FIR at the then Dimakuchi police outpost and a case was registered under Panery PS. The court headed by district and Sessions judge AK Borah came out with a verdict on Friday and sentenced the four accused with life imprisonment under sections 147/447/325/302 of the IPC.

Shajid Khan

Recipient of The Annual Colosseum Awards 2014 & 2015 (by The Assam Tribune group), Shajid Khan is an Independent journalist based in Assam. He has contributed numerous political, socio-political stories for bountiful national,international as well as Assam based publications including The New York Times,Firstpost,The Telegraph. He also pens down analytic commentary on print and web based publications.