GUWAHATI: In a landmark judgement, the Diphu Court on February 28 awarded life imprisonment for the 12 convicts in the spine chilling lynching case of Jhankar Saikia.
Earlier, the District Court convicted 12 persons and acquitted Assistant Sub-Inspector Ramesh Nath and Havildar Harun Bora among 4 others in the case.
It is to be mentioned that Jhankar Saikia and his lawyer-father Haren Saikia were thrashed on June 25, 2013, by a group of auto-rickshaw drivers after they had refused to pay extra fare.
According to videos, which went viral post the incident, the whole incident happened in the presence of the police who failed to stop the auto-rickshaw drivers from manhandling Jhankar.
Although the teenager was shifted to a private hospital in Diphu, he succumbed to his injuries on July 1, 2013.
