Man burnt to death after Kangaroo court finds him guilty of Murder
According to the police the sixty years old farmer, Bordoloi sustained nearly 90% of the burns. The body has been sent over for post-mortem and its report is yet to be announced. Five villages including three women have been booked for murder and have been detained for questioning.
On Sunday the police said, “A 60-year-old man was burnt to death by a mob in Assam after a kangaroo court declared him guilty of murdering a woman relative”. The incident took place around 5 am on Saturday at Lalunggaon, which is, an interior tribal village located almost 20 km away from the highway under Samaguri Police station in the Nagaon district of central Assam.
Mrinmoy Das, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Kaliabor said, “We got information at about 6 pm that a person had been burnt to death and buried following a local customary court’s decision. A team was immediately rushed, and we found the victim Ranjit Bordoloi’s body from a freshly dug grave,”.
On the morning of July 2, the body of Kabita Patar was found in the village pond. Kabita is the wife of Bordoloi’s neighbour and wife of his nephew and was reportedly pregnant. The woman was in her mid-twenties and was two months married.
Das reported that “Villagers initially thought the cause of Kabita’s death to be drowning and cremated her without informing the police. But on July 5, rumours started circulating in the village that Kabita had been murdered and thrown in the pond,”. The police have detained Kabita’s husband, mother-in-law, sister-in-law and two villagers all accused to be involved in Bordoloi’s murder.
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