Jailed peasants’ rights activist Akhil Gogoi in an open letter on Tuesday alleged that he was physically and mentally tortured in the custo...
Jailed peasants’ rights activist Akhil Gogoi in an open letter on Tuesday alleged that he was physically and mentally tortured in the custody of the National Investigation Agency, and claimed that he was offered instant bail by the investigators in return for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party or its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, PTI reported.
Gogoi, the leader of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, was placed under preventive arrest on December 12, 2019, after he staged a sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which took Assam by storm, later spreading to other parts of the country. The National Investigation Agency said that Gogoi had been booked for “waging a war against the nation”, conspiracy and rioting. Three days after his arrest, the activist was charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
The letter released by Gogoi’s newly floated political outfit, Raijor Dal, said that after his arrest, the peasant leader was taken to Delhi on December 18, 2019, without the court’s permission.
“I was taken from the National Investigation Agency court in Guwahati secretly by an aircraft at night to the NIA headquarters in Delhi,” Gogoi alleged, according to The Shillong Times. “At the NIA headquarters, I was lodged in lockup around 3 am on...
