GUWAHATI: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has filed a petition before the Supreme Court, challenging the Gauhati High Court order which rejected the bail plea of the peasants’ body chief Akhil Gogoi.
A bench of Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Ajit Borthakur had rejected the bail plea on January 7.
“After a prolonged hearing, the honourable Gauhati High Court rejected the bail plea of Gogoi. Thereafter, we had decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the order and accordingly we filed a petition on January 27,” advocate Shantanu Borthakur said.
However, no date has been fixed for hearing by the court as of now.
The high court, while rejecting the bail plea, observed that Gogoi had sent 15 members of his organization to camps to get them trained like Maoists. The court also said there were monetary transactions between Gogoi and the CPI (Maoist).
SB Raju, Additional Solicitor General of India appearing for the NIA, submitted before the court that Gogoi had sent KMSS cadres for training in CPI (Maoist) camps and that they were trained to handle firearms and explosives.
“The chargesheet contains sufficient material to show that violent activities had been perpetrated in various parts of the state, which had paralysed the government machinery and had also disrupted supply of essential goods in the state, causing economic blockade,” Raju submitted.
The NIA advocate further alleged that Gogoi was the mastermind in the case while three other accused persons — Bitu Sonowal, Dhaijya Konwar and Manas Konwar — were his associates.