Guwahati: Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Guwahati framed charges under the Long Act Activities (Prevention), 1967 against eight accused of their involvement in a grenade explosion which took place on May 15, 2019 near the State Zoo Assam and Botanical Gardens , leaving six people injured critically.
Defendant – Pappu Koch Bokoliyal alias Bijoy Asom alias Anvi, Jahnabee Saikia, Pranamoy Rajguru, Chinmoy Lahkar, Indra Mohan Bora, Amrit Ballav Goswami, Sanjib Talukdar and Prakash Raj Konwar – Found involved in Asom-Independent Liberation (ULFA-I ) activity.
Nia has taken over the case on June 26, 2019 and submitted a Chargesheet in November of that year.
During the investigation, the agency gathered additional evidence to the defendant, based on the additional chargesheet against militant clothing which was banned by Ulfa-I, the pieces of paresh recently and several others in September last year.
According to the court order, the investigation of this case has revealed that the conspiracy to conduct a bomb explosion on May 15, 2019 near the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati hatched in a rental house of Jahnabee in the Panjabari area in the city, where Pappu, Pranamoy, and Chinmoy were also present.
Pappu and Chinmoy held a meeting with Jahnabee and Pranamoy in the area of the zoo and after that, they had run Dry Run at the scene targeted before the explosion.
Pappu allegedly crossed the grenade and was picked up by Jahnabee in a rental of two-wheeled vehicles from the nursery area in Guwahati after the incident.
The court also found the location of the cellphone the defendant supported the findings of investigations.
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