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 apprehended an ULFA bomb expert and seized a powerful IED in two different places in Assam on the ULFA Army Day' on Friday.
Indentified as Tapan Phukan alias Bhabani Khaklary, the ULFA bomb was arrested from Solmari village in Lakhimpur district. He was trained in Myanmar.
On the other hand, security forces seized a powerful IED, weighing more than one and a half kg during a joint operation by the police and army in Teestapara area in Dhubri district.
Meanwhile, security was tightened throughout the state following a directive by the union home ministry on ULFA's 'Army Day' on Friday.
DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury said that three districts -- Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sibsagar -- were areas of concern and put on maximum alert while Goalpara and Dhubri districts were vulnerable. He said several youths had been picked up and police pickets posted in vulnerable districts.
The outfit observes 'Army Day' on the raising of its armed wing in 1979 under 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Barua who now heads the anti-talk faction.
The general budget has hardly anything for Assam and its other north eastern states. Industry chambers of the NE have termed the union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today as a 'stereotype' with nothing specific in it for the region.
FINER said the decision to increase service tax and lack of stimulus for the industry would curb weak growth. FINER Chairman R S Joshi said that there were no measures in the budget to revive industry. Instead standard excise duty has been hiked.
Assam's tea industry is very much upset with the union budget on Friday. The industry fails to get any stimuli in the budget.
The industry had hoped the budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday would look into issues concerning the tea industry, one of the major revenue earners for the state.
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