Assam: Anti-CAA leader Akhil Gogoi’s mother bedridden, AASU arranges treatment

RTI activist and Krishak Mukti Sangrama Samiti (KMSS) leader Akhil Gogoi’s mother Priyada Gogoi, 83, has fallen sick. She has been suffering from high blood pressure and diabetics. She is currently at her own residence at Selenghat in Jorhat’s Mariani.

Meanwhile, Jorhat wing of the All Assam Students’ Union has arranged treatment for Priyada Gogoi.

It may be mentioned that Akhil Gogoi is currently undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital.

The Gauhati High Court, Assam has granted bail to the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi in three cases lodged with Chabua police against him on July 16th, 2020. He has been granted bail in case number 293/2019, 296/2019 and 307/2019.

Also read: Assam: Gauhati High Court grants bail to Akhil Gogoi in Chabua Police Station cases

However, the hearing for the case lodged with the NIA will be held on July 21st, 2020.

Akhil Gogoi was arrested on 12th Dec 2019, from Jorhat, sent to NIA custody for 10 days in Delhi, and taken back and lodged in Guwahati Central Jail since 26th Dec. KMSS Secretary Dhaijya Konwar and Bittu Sonowal, President of Chatra Mukti Sangram Samiti, a popular democratic student org in Assam, were arrested on 13th Dec and lodged in Guwahati Central Jail. On 7th Jan, both of them were tagged in the same fake UAPA case with Akhil Gogoi and are currently in NIA custody in Kamrup district. Manas Konwar was arrested on 13th Dec, released later and re-arrested from NIA Court, Guwahati, Assam towards the end of January 2020 being slapped with similar charges under UAPA. Earlier, the NIA failed to file a charge sheet within the mandatory 90 days, which warranted Akhil’s release but he was immediately arrested for other cases.

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