A Division Bench of Supreme Court of India comprising JJ Dalbir Bhandari and H.S. Bedi after hearing Prof. Bhim Singh, Advocate for the petitioner ALOK, a human right group in Assam and Mr. Amarender, Senior Advocate for the Union of India regarding the case of Select Killings in Assam between 1998 and 2001 known as Select Killings, the Supreme Court allowed Prof. Bhim Singh to file Additional Affidavit in connection with extending the jurisdiction and scope of Justice K.N. Saikia Commission and enhancement of compensation to the victims upto 50 lacs. from 3.5 lacs. This was stated in a press release from the Prof. Singh's office in New Delhi
ALOK, a human right activist has filed a petition in the Supreme Court for inquiry and appropriate action into the secret killing of about 300 innocent civilians who were well-wishers of ULFA in Assam during the period of 1998 to 2001. Notice was issued by Supreme Court to the Government of Assam and Union of India. The Government of Assam appointed retired Justice K.N. Saikia who has submitted an investigation report of 40 persons only. The Government of Assam had referred case of only 40 persons to the Commission.
Prof. Bhim Singh urged the court to direct the Government of Assam to refer the cases of all the victims and provide a compensation of Rs.50 lacs. at least. Justice K.N. Saikia in his report has agreed that all the victims were taken from their homes secretly and later killed by the police.
Prof. Bhim Singh in his submissions wanted to submit further details about the remaining victims. The court allowed Prof. Bhim Singh. In the meantime the Supreme Court has given six months to the Assam Government to identify the heirs to verify the next of the kins of the victims.
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Security forces killed a hard-core ULFA member at an encounter in Goalpara district on Sunday.The encounter took place in the wee hours at Balbola under Dhupdhara police station in the district. An AK-56 rifle, over 100 live bullets, magazines and a hand grenade were recovered from his possession.
Acting on some intelligence inputs a joint team of police and Army carried out the operation and the encounter took place. The ULFA cadre died on the spot while three to four others managed to escape.
The Bodo Sahitya Sabha will stage a 2-hour dharna Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 12 alleging non fulfillment of their demands related to Bodo-medium schools.
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ULFA’s pro talk leaders are all set to hold the second round for formal talks with the Centre on Monday. A set of crucial issues are expected to come up during the meeting with the home ministry in Delhi.
A high-level pro-talk ULFA delegation, led by chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, left for New Delhi on Sunday to hold the second round of talks with the Centre to resolve the long-standing issues.
The delegation is scheduled to meet Union Home Secretary R K Singh on Monday to review the progress of the talks and to ensure that the process was expedited.
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Popular Assamese singer cum composer Charu Gohain is dead. He was 61 who breathed his last at around 10-45 on Saturday morning at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where he was undergoing treatment from February 22.
His condition deteriorated on Friday night and was shifted to the ICU. But he died on Saturday morning.
A pall of gloom has descends into the entire state. His mortal remains consigned to flames at Nabagraha cremation ground in presence of hundreds of his well wishers. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with many parties, organizations and individuals condoled his death.
ULFA on Saturday claimed to have blown up a vital unit of the Numaligarh Refinery Limited in Golaghat district on its Raising Day. But the refinery authorities refuse to read it.
Officials said there was an explosion at the hydrogen cracker plant area of the refinery at about 6:35 pm when the fire broke out. They said that the cause of the blaze was yet to be ascertained. Fire tenders posted at the refinery have rushed to the spot to douse the flames. The extent of damage has yet to be ascertained. On the other hand, ULFA in a statement has owned up the responsibility.
Security forces on Saturday arrested four persons and recovered a crude bomb on the ULFA raising day.
Police arrested the four persons from Nalbari district charging them with harbouring ULFA militants and recovered one live round of .9 mm pistol from their possession.
They were identified as Deepak Patowari, Hitesh Deka, Pabitra Deka and Achyut Mazumdar. Police claimed to have possessed incriminating documents from them.
On the other hand, SSB jawans recovered a crude bomb from a remote location in Baksa district on Saturday.
Assam assembly on Saturday observed its platinum jubilee in Guwahati where Veteran political leaders turned nostalgic.
Speakers after speakers remembered the golden days of the House when it held its first session in 1937 in Shillong.
Former MLA Premadhar Bora, Speaker Pranab Gogoi, former chief minister PK Mahanta were prominent among those who attended the low profile function. The grand function is scheduled for April 20 to be attended by prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh who represents the state in the Rajya Sabha.
Amid a simmering controversy over anomalies in HSLC examinations a SEBA official attacked journalist when they visited the headquarters on Saturday.
The official in question was administrative officer Kaushik Chandra Deka who attacked the video journalist of a private satellite news channel and tried to snatch the camera. Other journalists lodged a written complaint against Deka before chairman Shantikam Hazarika who promised to take action against him.
The Board of Secondary Education, Assam has ordered an enquiry into the Goalpara incident where wanton cows destroyed hundreds of HSLC answerscripts on Friday.
SEBA chairman Shantikam Hazarika told reporters on Saturday that the Board had already initiated an inquiry into the incident. He said that the answer scripts had been evaluated already and so it was not going to affect the future of the students.
Tension prevails in Gossaigaon following a shoot out leaving a local businessman injured.
The incident took place at around 7-30 in the evening at Charaibeel when he was trying to escape from a group of youths who tried to kidnap him at gunpoint.
Later he was rushed to the hospital. Security forces have launched an operation to nab the culprits.
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