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Sibsagar MLA and Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi arrives to visit his family after an NIA court granted 2 day parole to him on humanitarian grounds, in Guwahati, Friday, June 25, 2021.
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He has been barred from meeting the public
Sibsagar MLA and Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi was on June 25 allowed to go home after almost 550 days in captivity, but for two days.
A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) granted him 48-hour parole after he wished to visit his wife and teenaged son in Guwahati and mother in Jorhat, about 310 km east.
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Guwahati:
Jailed anti-citizenship amendment act activist Akhil Gogoi, who is the first Assamese to win an election from behind the bars, today received permission from a special NIA court to take oath as legislator of Assam Assembly.
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