A fast- track court in Nagaon is set to deliver its verdict on Monday in the brutal 2018 lynching case of Abhijit Nath and Nilotpal Das, a case that had transferred shockwaves across Assam. The incident took place on the night of June 8, 2018, at Dokmoka in Karbi Anglong quarter, where the two youthful men from Guwahati were severely killed by a mob on dubitation of being child abductors. The trial has been ongoing in a fast- track court, and after a prolonged hail process, the judgment is eventually listed to be blazoned. The Karbi Anglong Police had filed a chargesheet against 45 indicted, all of whom are presently in judicial guardianship. During the trial, a aggregate of 14 substantiations were presented. still, 8 of them reportedly turned hostile during the proceedings, while 6 maintained their original statements
. In connection with contended pitfalls to substantiations, the victims’ families had also filed a separate case at Dokmoka Police Station in 2019, in which police have formerly submitted a chargesheet. The execution has been led by special public prosecutor Jiaur Kamar, while elderly advocate Bijon Mahajan represented the victims’ families in court. The disquisition into the case was carried out by also supervisor of Police G. V. Sivasprasad, who gathered substantial substantiation against the indicted and assured that the chargesheet was filed within the quested time. Despite this, the families of the victims have had to stay nearly eight times for justice. With the verdict now imminent, there is wide anticipation and anxiety among the public regarding the outgrowth of the case.