{"id":63647,"date":"2017-02-22T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63647"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:59:20","slug":"assault-on-sitting-judge-in-assam-ppfa-demands-stern-actions-against-anti-national-culprits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/22\/assault-on-sitting-judge-in-assam-ppfa-demands-stern-actions-against-anti-national-culprits\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault on sitting judge in Assam, PPFA demands stern actions against anti-national culprits"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Our Correspondent<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples\u2019 Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 forum strongly\u00a0 argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted the Foreigners Tribunal member Ajay Kumar Phukan inside his office at Goalpara in western Assam, must be punished\u00a0 to protect the image of\u00a0 judicial personalities among the mass.<\/p>\n

It may be noted that a group of lawyers, while engaging with heated arguments with the sitting judge on 15 February 2017 over a D<\/p>\n

(doubtful)- voters case, ended up in physically assaulting Phukan and vandalized the office.<\/p>\n

Tribunal member Phukan on 9 February opined that eight out of 13 D-voters, whose cases were dealt in his court, were foreigners. It angered the lawyers, hired by the individuals, and they along with few other law practitioners started arguing with Phukan that finally turned hostile.<\/p>\n

Phukhan had lodged an FIR with the Goalpara Sadar police station and the police have reportedly arrested five lawyers namely Najrul Islam, Abdur Baten, Safiqur Islam, Anowar Hussain and Nurjamal Islam suspecting their roles in the assault case. Other accused (Omar Farooq and Shahjahan Ali), whose names were figured in Phukan\u2019s FIR are absconding.<\/p>\n

Following the shocking incident, a team from Gauhati High Court visited Goalpara to inquire about the investigation. Led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, the team included Assam\u2019s additional chief secretary(home) TY Das, the State police chief Mukesh Sahay, special director-general of police (law\u00a0 & order) Kuladhar Saikia along with few high profile officials. Goalpara district magistrate JVN Subramanyam and the district police chief Amitava Sinha also accompanied the team.<\/p>\n

The incident evoked sharp reactions from the civil society groups in Assam and they demanded immediate actions against those involved in the case. Condemnations poured from All Assam Layers Association, All Assam Students\u2019 Union, All Assam Goria Moria Deshi Jatiya Parishad, Prabrajan Virodhi Mancha, Guwahati Senior Citizens\u2019 Association etc.<\/p>\n

We would like to urge the Supreme Court, which constituted the Foreigners Tribunals for expediting identification & determination of illegal migrants, to take serious note of the incident,\u201d said a statement issued by the PPFA, adding that the Bar Council of India must take exemplary actions against the lawyers, who engaged themselves in the dastardly\u00a0 act of physical assaults with a\u00a0 judge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Issued by Rupam Barua, Nava Thakuria, Jagadindra Raichoudhury, Anup Sarma, Devjyoti Saikia etc for the PPFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Patriotic Peoples\u2019 Front Assam (PPFA) expresses serious concern over the Goalpara incident, where a sitting judge was physically manhandled by some lawyers recently and demands stern actions against those unruly law practitioners to maintain the dignity of the Indian judicial entity. The\u00a0 forum strongly\u00a0 argues that the anti-national culprits, who targeted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}