: The Assam government on Thursday failed to submit to the Gauhati High Court a detailed updated investigation report for every encounter case since May 2021.
Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Delhi-based lawyer-activist Arif Jwadder, the court observed that the State government was on July 29 given six weeks to submit the updated report into all the police encounters that have taken place in Assam from the stated month.
Assam had recorded 161 incidents of police action in 13 months after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge in May 2021. These incidents resulted in the death of 51 accused people while 139 others were injured.
