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The Gauhati High Court has acquitted all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam s Dhemaji. The Assam government has asked the Director General of Police to study the judgment and, if legal advice is obtained, they will appeal to the Supreme Court. The blast, carried out by the proscribed militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), killed 18 people, including 13 schoolchildren.
The explosion at the Independence Day celebrations was done by proscribed militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Six people had been convicted in 2019. The Dhemaji District and Sessions Court had sentenced Lila Gogoi, Dipanjali Borgohain, Muhi Handique and Jatin Dowari to life imprisonment, and handed a four-year jail term to Prashanta Bhuyan and Hemen Gogoi.
The Dhemaji District and Sessions Court held a total of 6 persons guilty of the blast and convicted them of several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The Gauhati High Court today acquitted all six convicts in the 2004 bomb blast in Assam's Dhemaji, which had killed 18 people, including 13 schoolchildren.