Life term for two in Sanjoy Ghose murder case

The Sanjoy Ghose murder case came to a close here today with the court of the additional sessions judge pronouncing life imprisonment for two of the 11 accused, while six others, including ULFA armed wing chief Paresh Barua were declared absconders.

P.K. Phukan, the additional sessions judge, Kamrup, pronouncing the judgment said that Moni Neog and Kania Hazarika, the accused who were found guilty of the murder of the noted social worker, were also fined a sum of Rs 2000 each, failing which they would get six months additional imprisonment.

Neog and Hazarika were the only members of the outlawed ULFA who were arrested and lodged in Guwahati district jail for nearly five years.

Those declared as absconders, included both top-ranking members of the ULFA who accosted Ghose while he was on his way to village Mekheligaon in Majuli, the world’s largest river island, and whisked away at gunpoint on July 4, 1997. He was later killed the same evening.