Key accused in AASU leader’s lynching killed

Students of the Cotton University light candles to pay tribute to All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) leader Animesh Bhuyan, who was lynched by a mob following an alleged road accident in Assam’s Jorhat district, in Guwahati. Pic/PTI

Neeraj Das alias ‘Kola Lora', the prime accused in the AASU leader lynching case, died on Wednesday after being hit by a police vehicle "as he was trying to escape police custody", a senior officer said.

A total 13 people, including Das, were arrested in the last two days in connection with the lynching of All Assam Students' Union (AASU) leader Animesh Bhuyan. "During interrogation, Das had revealed that a big drug consignment was coming... A police team, in its bid to intercept the consignment, was on the way to Mariani along with Das around 2 am. In between, there is a lonely stretch on the Chinamora-Mariani road where Das tried to escape by jumping off the vehicle.

"The police vehicle, which was moving at a high speed, hit the accused accidentally as he was trying to flee. The driver of the vehicle then lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a wall, and was damaged," said Jorhat Superintendent of Police Ankur Jain.

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