Guwahati, Sept 28: Gauhati HC has upheld the life term of NDFB-R chief Ranjan Daimari, and 6 others for 2008 serial blasts. 3 others sentenced to life imprisonment earlier have been acquitted. One of 4 others sentenced under UAPA has also been acquitted. Daimari is currently staying in a home-like VVIP cell in Chirang.

Daimary and others had challenged the CBI court’s order in 2019 and moved the Gauhati High Court. The high court pronounced its judgment on Tuesday.

At least 88 people were killed and over 500 people were injured in the serial blasts carried out on October 30, 2008, by insurgent group National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). The blasts were simultaneously carried out in Guwahati, Barpeta Road, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon. This was one of the biggest terror attacks in Assam.