The Gauhati High Court dismisses a 29-year-old murder case, which indicted seven Army personnel for reportedly killing five Assamese citizens.
Murder Case Of 5 Assamese Citizens
In this regard, a bench of justices Achintya Malla Bujor Barua and Robin Phukan took into account opposing arguments that further investigation may be pointless since the petitioners claimed that “no further credible materials may be available” and “the Army authorities’ position that because of the passage of time the Army personnel, where the majority of them have retired from service”.
It needs to be mentioned the five victims died during an Army operation. Four of the five victims were members of the All Assam Students Union.
“We are of the view that instead of trying to come to a definitive conclusion as to whether the death was caused in a manner other than acceptable in law, we accept the situation that the deaths of the aforesaid five persons, Prabin Sonowal, Akhil Sonowal, Debajit Biswas, Pradip Dutta, and Bhupen Moran, took place during an Army operation,” the Gauhati High Court stated.