Dhemaji bomb blast victims’ families initiate stir for justice

LAKHIMPUR: Can anything else be more heart-wrenching and excruciating than the situation which leads the kith and kins of terrorism victims to take to the streets to seek justice from the existing judicial and administrative machinery? Perhaps no; but the family members of the 2004 Dhemaji bomb blast victims have to suffer the agony of such situation following the Gauhati High Court's verdict pronounced by acquitting the accused of the brutal incident which killed ten innocent children with three women.

Finally, the families of the 2004 Dhemaji bomb blast victims were compelled by the circumstances to initiate protest programme to demand justice. On Friday, they staged sit-in in front of the Office of the Dhemaji District Commissioner expressing resentment over the latest development of the case. Extending support to them, a delegation of the Dhemaji district unit of the All Assam Students’ Union, led by district secretary Jayanta Borgohain, central committee executive member Rabi Kachari and adviser Dipak Sarmah, took part in the protest programme.

By initiating the stir, the family members of the blast victims submitted a memorandum to the President of India, through which they demanded State Government's move to Supreme Court to apeal against the Gauhati High Court's verdict regarding the Appeal No. Criminal Case CrLA-311/2019. Through the same memorandum, they also demanded action against those investigating officers who failed to provide dur evidence prove the culprits involved in the incident to be accused for conviction. They further demanded to recognize the innocent ten children and three women as martyr officially by providing justice and their judicious right as they bravely attended the Independence Day celebration by defying the Independence Day boycott call made by banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). They also submitted separate copies of the same memorandum to Prime Minister of India, Governor and Chief Minister of Assam.

On the other hand, taking part in the protest programme, Dhemaji AASU general secretary Jayanta Borgohain said, “The culprits of the heinous bomb blast incident must get punishment. The victims of the heinous incident did not get justice due to dereliction on the part of the investigating officers of the case and the State Home Department. The Gauhati High Court pronounced its verdict of the case by acquitting the accused because of the inefficiency on the part of the investigating officers. Since the beginning, AASU had demanded that the case should be handed over to the CBI, so that no culprits involved in the heinous explosion could get escape from being punished by taking advantage of the loopholes of law. But it was not done. Now we have demanded State Government’s intervention to provide justice to the victims.”

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