• The Gauhati High Court upholds Ranjan Daimary's life sentence in the 2008 serial blasts case.

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    The Gauhati High Court upholds Ranjan Daimary's life sentence in the 2008 serial blasts case.




    Digital Desk: The
    Gauhati High Court today upheld NDFB Spearhead Ranjan Daimari's life sentence
    in the 2008 Assam serial blasts case, which killed more than 88 people and
    paralyzed more than 500 others. The explosions occurred in four Assamese
    cities: Gauhati, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, and Barpeta. In 2019, a special court
    in Gauhati found Daimari guilty of planning the 2008 blasts. Daimari was the
    mastermind behind one of Assam's most heinous attacks, which has gone down in
    history as one of the state's darkest chapters.



    Daimari was on an
    on-again, off-again path to prison after being granted bail for four weeks to
    participate in the Bodo peace talks in 2020. In April of last year, he and the
    other nine convicts petitioned the Gauhati High Court for a suspension of their
    sentences, which the top court denied. Following the explosions, the Assam
    Police issued red alerts for Daimari, and after a two-year search, he was
    apprehended by a team of Bangladesh Rifles in Bangladesh and handed over to
    Indian custody.



    Daimari was active for
    more than two decades until he was apprehended in Bangladesh in 2010. Daimari
    established a network of contacts in neighboring countries such as Bangladesh
    and Myanmar, and he was supplied with arms and ammunition for his new outfit,
    the NDFB. Following Daimari's arrest, the NDFB split into three factions, the
    largest of which is led by Govinda Basumatary, who signed a ceasefire agreement
    with the Indian government in 2020. The smallest of these three factions
    opposes the peace treaty signed by the NDFB and the Indian government and has
    camps in Myanmar's northern Saigang division.