NIA appeals against Akhil Gogoi’s release
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached the Gauhati High Court difficult the July 1 order of the NIA particular court docket that cleared activist-MLA Akhil Gogoi of all costs below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act.
The NIA filed the enchantment on Tuesday.
“The court has not listed the case yet,” the MLA’s lawyer Krishna Gogoi advised The Puucho.
Mr. Gogoi was in jail for greater than 18 months since December 2019 on costs of sedition and fomenting violence throughout the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests resulting in the dying of at the least 5 individuals.
The particular court docket of the NIA cleared him of all the costs because the investigation company couldn’t present substantial proof against him. Three of his associates had been additionally acquitted.
Mr. Gogoi had received the Sibsagar Assembly constituency from jail. He is the president of Raijor Dal, a regional political get together fashioned in October 2020.
Raijor Dal had contested the 2021 Assam polls in a free alliance with one other new regional get together, the Assam Jatiya Parishad. The alliance now not exists.
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