Assam serial blast case 2008: Court convicts 15 cadres of NDFB
Prabin Kalita | TNN | Jan 28, 2019, 12:19 IST
GUWAHATI: A fast track court has convicted 15 cadres of National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) for their involvement in serial blasts at six places on October 30 of 2008 in Assam, in which more than 100 people were killed and over 300 others maimed for life.
CBI, which investigated the heinous crime and filed two charge-sheets, has demanded death sentence for all the accused. Leader of the militant outfit, Ranjan Daimary, has been named as the prime accused.
The case was lying pending for trial since 2011 and in 2017 the state government approved setting up a special court exclusively for putting the trial on fast track.
Advocate Manas Sarania, counsel of Daimary said, "Both the sides have rested their case and the court has fixed January 28 as the next date."
The court has so far recorded at least 650 witnesses and some 687 exhibits or documentary evidence in connection to the state.
Sources said that while it took almost nine years to record some 70 odd witnesses, all the others were recorded within the last couple of months. The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on January 30.
CBI, which investigated the heinous crime and filed two charge-sheets, has demanded death sentence for all the accused. Leader of the militant outfit, Ranjan Daimary, has been named as the prime accused.
The case was lying pending for trial since 2011 and in 2017 the state government approved setting up a special court exclusively for putting the trial on fast track.
Advocate Manas Sarania, counsel of Daimary said, "Both the sides have rested their case and the court has fixed January 28 as the next date."
The court has so far recorded at least 650 witnesses and some 687 exhibits or documentary evidence in connection to the state.
Sources said that while it took almost nine years to record some 70 odd witnesses, all the others were recorded within the last couple of months. The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on January 30.
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