Assam State Consultation on “Reproductive Rights,

Human Rights and using the Law

Introduction

Socio Legal Information Centre (SLIC) in collaboration with European Union (EU) and Prayas

organized a two day Assam state level consultation on Sexual and Reproductive Health and

Rights (SRHR) and the Human Rights situation in Assam. This technical forum is a part of

HRLN and Prayas’s ongoing initiative towards enhancing ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and

Rights’ (SRHR) amd human rights, using the law as a tool. The forum seeks to build a collective

understanding and advocacy around issues with regard to SRHR and human rights. The forum

envisages having participation from, civil society groups, health and human rights experts,

lawyers, law students and academicians. The key objectives of the forum are:

● To equip participants with knowledge on SRHR concepts, other human rights issues

● To create awareness amongst participants on relevant laws and policies at national and

state level on SRHR and other laws.

● To identify key emerging issues surrounding SRHR in the state and other human rights

issues.

● To build the capacity of participants to effectively engage communities to advocate for

SRHR issues and other issues of human rights.

● To develop the action plan for enhancing access to SRHR and other human rights issues.

The consultation programme was organized on 9th and 10th May, 2015 at Indian Institute of

Bank Management (IIBM), Khanapara. Lawyers, Civil society Members, ASHA workers from

19 district and students from three law schools participated in the meeting.

Discussion The consultation meeting started with a welcome note by the coordinator of the Guwahati unit. In the first

session (Reports from District), lawyers, ASHA and civil society representatives shared their experience

and discuss the atrocities they have been subjected to in the society. Around 18 testaments were delivered

by people from different districts of Assam, in which they talked about the problems involving rape,

corruption and unavailability of medicines at civil hospitals. This session was moderated by Ms. Pritisha

and Mr. Manjit Kumar Das and they acquainted the gathering with the issues related to reproductive

rights of women and initiated an introductory chapter in the session, which was a brief introduction of

everyone attending the consultation.

Following are the issues discussed:

Sno. Districts Testaments Issues Related Incident

1. Nalbari Jayanta Kumar Sarma •Army Atrocities •Rape by army officials •No action from government

2. Kokrajhar Madhab Prasad Upadhyay, Ratan Jhangkar Bargayary

•Custodial Violence •Communal Violence •Witch hunting •No doctor in PHC •No Health Services •No restitutions for victim of communal violence victim

3. Goalpara Minakhi, Junu Rabha, Sanjay Sarma, Nirupama Devi

•Witch Hunting •Ethnic Conflict •People don’t prefer Doctor •No Rehabilitation •Flood •Rape •Domestic Violence

4. Tengaghat ASHA workers •Flood •Witch Hunting •No beds in civil Hospitals •No Ambulance Services •No Medicines available in hospitals

5. Sonitpur Dipali Sut, Dhaneshwari Kurmi, Barnabas Kindo,Ananta Hazarika, Ehyaranidsa, Heman Kispotta, Mousumi

•Defects in health facilities in camp. •No Birth Registrations •No Baby kit •No Blood Bank

•Women denied for free blood transmission. •Death of pregnant women due to late referencing of Doctors.

Duwarah, •No food at Anganbari centre for 10 months. •108 Ambulance service not available. •Witch Hunting •Police Inaction •Human Trafficking •Irregulatory wage distribution •Women prefer home delivery.

•Rape of a physically Handicapped Girl. •Rape of minor girl(impregnated) •ASHA workers had to buy medicines for victims.

6. Darrang Rajibec Deka, Sajid Ali •No equal wages for men and women •Disturbance due to army operations •No Health Services •Maternal Death •No Ambulance Facility

7. Udalguri Jayanta kumar, •Witch Hunting in tea garden area •Human Trafficking •No lady doctors in the hospitals for delivery

8. Morigaon Saswati Bora •Police Atrocities •Juvenile Delinquency

9. Dhemaji Gopinath Handique, Bornali Chetia,Mamu Borsaikia, Runumai Gogoi, Basant Chetri, Lilawati Doley

•Police Atrocities •Lack of Ambulance service •Irregulatory wage distribution

•Maternal death during labour •Charging medical fees at government hospital.

● Underweighted born baby

10. Golaghat Pranab, Amit Gogoi, Dipshikha Rajbanshi, Amiya Lomga Bora,

•Frequent Anemia cases •Infant Mortality •Absence of Doctors and Medical Staffs. •Maternal benefit schemes like Mamoori, Mamla, Majoni not available •Assam-Nagaland border dispute •Witch Hunting

•No bed at government hospitals.

11. Barpeta Amiruz Zaman Choudhary, M.D Ashik Iqbal, Fulchand Ali, M.D. Jahan Ali, Reena Choudhary, Swapna Das

•Flood •Lack of transport services •108 service not available •No road construction authorities •Child labour •Lack of doctors at PHC •Medical fees fluctuations •Child Marriage

•No rehab for flood victims

•Lack of education •Harassment of Women •Infant Mortality

12. Kamrup Kakali Das, Sattar Choudhary

•Harassment of women •Domestic Violence •Pollution by individuals •No ambulance services •Corruption at GMC •Lack of medicines(iron tablets for women)

•Wrong Testaments in police interrogation •Conversion of village areas into industrialized zones

13. Baksa Satya Narayan Das, Manju Das

•Lack of Doctors in Hospitals •Lack of child specialist •No proper treatment in hospitals •corruption

14. Dibrugarh Plaban kakoti, Rumi Delique, Noni Likson Phukan, Ruli Likson Gohain

•Domestic violence •Witch hunting •Child labour •No medicines available in hospitals •Anemia • 108 service not available •Incentives are not available timely •No security for ASHA workers.

•Injections are not for free •Referral money 600-700 •Medical colleges 40km away from main town

15. Lakhimpur Uttara Goswami, Pushpanjali Mili, Lakhi Mai Borohua

•Flood •Child labour •Border Dispute •Human Trafficking •Rape •Domestic violence •Dowry •Sex selectiveness

•Security force atrocities •Maternal benefits not available

16. Bongaigaon Tanu Devi •Child Marriage •Unhygienic hospital conditions •Corruption in hospital authorities

17. Jorhat Bharti Gayon Bordoloi, Masi Topno,

•Health issues in tea garden areas

18. Tinsukia Jyoti Gogoi, Nibha Kalita, Anjali Das

•ULFA issue •Police atrocity •Domestic violence •Rape

•Rape of a disabled girl.

19. Nagaon Manashi Gayan, Anjali Baruah

•No hygiene in the hospitals •No proper food supplement in hospitals •Sterilization failure •ASHA wage regularization

•No proper 108 services

Session on Sterilization

Resource Person: Debashish Banerjee, Lawyer of Kolkata High Court

The session on sterilization was initiated after lunch, and was moderated by advocate Mr.

Debashish Banerjee. He talked about sterilization in regard to Supreme case on Ramakant Rai vs

Union of India.

Discussion:

After defining the term sterilization he included a Supreme Court case of Ramakant Rai vs

Union of India and further asked the ASHA workers about their target for sterilization in a year.

He meant that whether they were getting forced to compel women to get sterilized. To which

some workers hesitated but ultimately they kept the matter at vines. He said that sterilization

should be free and no one should be forced for the operation.

National Health Mission (2012 to 2017)

Resource Person: Pritisha, Social Activist Human Rights Law Network

The session was moderated by Ms. Pritisha, where she talked about the govt. schemes for

pregnant women and health missions regulated by the govt. itself. She started with services

provided during pregnancy and discussed the health mission with the help of slides. She divided

her discussion on pregnancy services as pre-pregnancy service, pregnancy services, and post-

pregnancy services.

Later, topics like access to contraception, HIV/AIDS, abortion were discussed briefly by Mr.

Sarita. She told the assembly about reproductive rights of women which includes right to decide

number of children. This right should exclusively rest with the women as it affects women’s

health.

Child Marriage

Resource Person: Debashsish Banerjee

Child marriages were common throughout history for a variety of reasons, including poverty,

insecurity, as well as for political and financial reasons. Today, child marriage is still fairly

widespread in developing countries, such as parts of Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, West

Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. The incidence of child marriage has been falling in most parts

of the world. Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union entered into by an individual

before reaching the age of 18.

The session extended for half an hour, moderated by Mr. Debashish where he discussed about

modern scenario of Indian society in case of child marriage. 70% of Indian population exists

because of child marriage. The practice of child marriage was prominent a generation before and

the current generation is an outcome of child marriage. However with the shift of rationality

among elders of our society the tradition of child marriage started to deplete, which was an

improvement in the society. Marriage before 18yrs of age is harmful to the health of female and

in most of the cases leads to death of mother in giving birth to child. He talked about child

Marriage prohibition officer and his role in preventing such type of marriages. He also said that

married girls often don’t finish their education at school and so can lack the skills to help lift

their families out of poverty. The international community’s failure to end child marriage means

it has fallen short in its commitment to reduce global poverty and achieve six of the eight

Millennium Development Goals. “Child marriage enforces gender inequality and violates human

rights. Tolerating any injustice makes it easier for others to exist”. He gave us few reasons for child

marriages like poverty, migration, social and religious customs.

Family Planning

Resource Person: Sarita Barpanda, Director, Human Rights Law Network

Access to safe, voluntary family planning is a human right and is central to gender equality,

women’s empowerment and poverty reduction. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

says that, “Some 225 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and

effective family planning methods, for reasons ranging from lack access to information or

services to lack of support from their partners or communities.” UNFPA says that, “Most of

these women with an unmet need for contraceptives live in 69 of the poorest countries on earth.”

Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. In the

1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage has more than tripled (from 13% of married women in

1970 to 48% in 2009) and the fertility rate has more than halved (from 5.7 in 1966 to 2.6 in

2009), but the national fertility rate is still high enough to cause long-term population growth.

India adds up to 1,000,000 people to its population every 15 days.

HIV AIDS

The session started with questioning the gathering about AIDS. Ms. Sarita (moderator) asked

them about the transmission of HIV virus from mother to child during pregnancy and extended

the session with sharing information through slides.

Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission:

There are an estimated 2.1 million (2011) People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in India, with

National adult HIV prevalence of 0.27% (2011). Of these, women constitute 39% of all PLHIV

while children less than 15 years of age constitute 7% of all infections. As on March 2013, 0.1

million HIV positive children had been registered under the Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)

programme and 38,579 are receiving free ART. There has been a significant scale-up of HIV

counseling & testing, Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission (PPTCT) and ART services

across the country over last five years. Between 2004 and 2013, the number of pregnant women

tested annually under the Prevention of Parent-To-Child–Transmission (PPTCT) programme

increased from 0.8 million to 8.83 million and reach of the services has expanded to the rural

areas to a large extent. Concurrently, there has also been a significant decentralization and scale-

up of the ART services; with 7.34 Lakhs PLHIV receiving free ART across the country through

409 ART centers and 860 Link-ART centers (LAC).Mother-to-child-transmission of HIV is a

major cause of HIV infection in children. However, out of an estimated 27 million pregnancies

in a year, only about 52.7% attend health services for skilled care during child birth in India. Of

those who availed health services, 8.83 million ANCs received HIV counseling and testing

(March 2013) out of which 12,551 pregnant women were detected to be HIV positive.

To enhance this coverage, a joint directive from the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP)

and the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) regarding convergence of the two programme

components was issued in July 2010, explicitly stating that universal HIV screening should be

included as an integral component of routine ANC check-up. The objective was to ensure that

pregnant women who are diagnosed with HIV would be linked to HIV services for their own

health as well as to ensure prevention of HIV transmission to new-born babies under the PPTCT

programme.

Anemia

Assam is one of the highest maternal mortality rates in India. From our fact findings on maternal

health in the district of Sonitpur, Karbi Anglong, Darrang and Dhemaji district of Assam we

found that one of the primary causes of maternal death in Assam is Anemia. She discussed about

the symptoms and precautionary measures for the anemic patients with a case study of maternal

death due to anemia in Sonitpur district.

Later the first session was summed up and a vote of thanks to everyone for attending the

workshop coming from such long distances.

10th May , 2015:

The second day session was started with a recap of previous day where some more points were

raised by ASHA workers as well various advocates and activists representing their respective

districts regarding various health and other human rights issues.

Torture, Execution, Disappearances And Other Human

Rights Violations In Assam

Resource Person: Pranab Doley (Activist from Golaghat)

Debashish Banerjee (Lawyer)

Walli Ulla Laskar (Activist from Barak Valley)

Santosh Kumar (Lawyer, Dibrugarh)

Gopinath (Lawyer, District Legal Service Authority)

Naba Thakuria (Senior Journalist)

The session was opened by Mr. Pranab Doley, an activist from Golaghat, who gave an overview

of the torture, execution, disappearances and other human rights violations in Assam. He

discussed the problem of the front kill operations between the task forces and the poachers in the

Kaziranga National Park. He questioned the viability of the encounter there because no proper

complains are filed regarding the concerned issues and thereby the local authorities are unable to

take up the issues. He also highlighted the nature of media where the role of media is

questionable. Lastly, he discussed certain incidents of Karbi Anglong which portrays the front

killing operations between the task forces and the poacher which seems extra judicial in nature.

After a brief session taken by Mr. Pranab Doley, Mr. Debashsis Banerjee, an advocate, took the

dais. He initiated the session by discussing the definition of torture and pointed out that no such

definition of torture is given in the statutes of the Indian laws. Then he draws attention to the

definition of torture given by the United Nations Declaration against Torture and though India is

a Signatory to this declaration but it did not ratify the conditions mentioned in the Convention.

However, there was no real discussion of torture, execution, disappearances and other human

rights violations in Assam specifically but he gave an overview of the topic. He also talked about

encounters and said that it includes extra judicial killing. He briefly discussed the specific

guidelines required to be followed while making arrests as held in D.K.Basu v. State of West

Bengal. He discussed various sections of Criminal Procedure Code which include provision for

proper procedure to arrest a person and punish.

Walli Ulla Laskar, started the session by discussing the problems mentioned by all the

participants presents there from various districts. Then he talked about the situation of Barak

Valley regarding the extra judicial killings and torture. He discussed various incidents of torture

or extra judicial killing and said that it is against article 21 of the Indian Constitution. Took a

brief session on Article 21 of the Indian Constitution and said that a person has a right to food,

mal nutrition, etc and violation of this will also lead to extra judicial killing.

Santosh Kumar, an advocate from Dibrugarh, shared his experience of the survey done by him in

jail. He demonstrates the deplorable condition of local jails in his district as the jails are

overcrowded there. According to his survey done on 5th April 2014, the capacity of jail is 500

whereas the total number of prisoners living there is 869 (783 males, 78 females and 8 children).

This is in a way torture and violates the rights of the prisoners. Further he discussed other issues

of his district which is again in a way torture, such as no proper facilities provided to the tea

gardeners, lack of education institutions, corruption in schools, lack of medical facilities, no

electricity, etc.

Mr. Gopinath, an advocate from District Legal Service Authority, also initiated his session by

defining the torture as defined in UN Declaration. Further he discussed the rights of the people

against torture. He encouraged the people sitting there to raise their voice against torture by

saying that the rights go hand in hand with duties and one should stand up if ones rights are

violated.

Naba Thakuria

Naba Thakuria, one of the senior journalists in Assam and Secretary of Guwahati Press Club

while discussing about torture, extortion and extra-judicial killings traced back the Assam history

of murder, secret killings and numerous tortures has depicted an outline of human rights

violation in Assam since the inception of Assam-Agitation till date. He chronologically

discussed the dark days of Assam history since independence. He described the political scenario

as organised torture upon the people. Where different agitations, language movement, demand

for separate state, ULFA atrocities led to massive torture, extra-judicial killing, mass killing of

innocent people, serial killing and secret killing took place. During language movement many

innocent people were killed and forced to leave Assam. The problem of illegal immigrants

staying in Assam led to a mass protest resulting in signing of Assam-Accord in 1985. In the late

80’s Assam witnessed increasing Army atrocities.

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How to do a PIL:

Resource Person: Debashish Banerjee

This session was taken by Debashish, an advocate from Kolkata HRLN, in the beginning of the

session he asked the participants about their general views regarding Public Interest Litigation.

After hearing various views of participants, he explained about the PIL that this is one of the

exceptions to the general rule of Locus Standi. The decisions of the Supreme Court in the 1970’s

loosened the strict Locus Standi requirements to permit filing of petition on behalf of

marginalized and deprived section of the society by public spirited individuals, institutions

and/or other bodies. Therefore public interest litigation is an action in the court of law for the

enforcement of general interest of the public where their legal rights or liabilities are affected. In

this regard he explained two ways to reach court – firstly, the one who wants to file a PIL should

find an advocate, go and discuss about the matter in concern and then file a PIL. Secondly, the

person himself can file a PIL by sending a letter petition to the Chief Justice of any High Court

or directly to the Supreme Court. If someone wants to handle the matter himself, he must get

good legal advice on the drafting. Otherwise the court may appoint an amicus curie of the

petitioner. Debashish also pointed out some basic things which everyone has to keep in mind

before filing a PIL those are

1. PIL can be filed only against the government.

2. Evidence is necessary to be collected before filling the PIL. One should collect all the relevant

information, take statement of the victims or family members of the victim or can file RTI’s, can

go for fact findings, can use photographs and so on.

3. Filing a suit against the government would require issuing a notice to the concerned department

at least two months prior to filing.

4. Thereafter a proper application should be file in the court or can file a suit in the court.

5. Most important point in the petition is the prayer i.e the relief for which the petition is made.

Debashish further said about the parties who can file a PIL in the court. He stated that any person

can move to the court, it is not necessary that the petitioner has suffered some injury of his own

or has had personal grievance to litigate. Here, he mentioned that in India maximum PIL’s has

been filed by social activists. It can be said that PIL is a procedure which enables any public

spirited citizen or social activist to mobilise favourable judicial concern on behalf of the

oppressed classes. It is a powerful tool in the hands of public spirited persons and social interest

groups for combating exploitation and injustice. He also added that it is necessary to consult with

an advocate who genuinely has an interest to help the people in need. Here, he mentioned about

some leading cases of PIL’s like Prem lata & ors. vs Government of NCT of Delhi WP (C)

7687/2010 , D.K. Basu vs. State of West Bengal (1997) SSC 416.

Discussion:

In the end of his session he asked the participants about any confusions regarding PILs and tried

to answer them. A participant from Kokrajhar asked whether he can file a PIL or not in relation

to the improper relation of student and teacher in the schools of their locality and whether he can

use RTI’s as evidence in that regard. Debashish said that he can file provided he must have

sufficient evidence relating to that matter and also said that RTI can be used as evidence but try

to collect some other sources as evidence. Lastly all ASHA workers asked whether they can file

a PIL for the irregularities regarding nonpayment of their full salaries which was promised to be

paid by the concerned authority. Here, the HRLN Guwahati assured the ASHA workers to help

them in filing the PIL in the concern issue.

Action Plan

Sl

No

District Issues Person Responsible Task to be

taken

Start

Date

1 Nalbari ● Army Atrocities

● Lack of Infrastructure of government

hospital, PHC, CHC and sub centre

Jayanta Kumar

Sharma, Farhana

and Pritisha

RTI, fact

finding and

litigation

June

2 Kokrajhar ● Custodial Violence

● Communal Violence

● Witch Hunting

● Non-availability of doctors at PHC, CHC,

Sub-centers, district hospital

● Non availability of health services

● No ambulance services

Madhav Prasad,

Manjit, Raju and

Pritisha

RTI, fact

finding and

litigations

June

3 Goalpara

● No availability ambulance in district hospital

● Lack of equipments & infrastructure in

district hospital, PHC, CHC, sub centers

● Maternal death

● Witch Hunting

● Irregularities of Payments for ASHA and

Anganwadi workers

Nirupama Devi and

Pritisha

RTI, fact

finding and

litigation

June

● Domestic Violence

4 Dibrugarh

● No specialization of doctors (Gynecologist &

child specialist)

● Lack of infrastructure, Equipments and

medicines at PHC, CHC and district

hospitals

● Regularization of salary of Anganwadi/Asha

● No training for ASHA

● No ambulance services

● Witch Hunting

● Child Labour

● Anemia

Plabon Kakati,

Rumi Delique, Noni

Likson Phukan, Ruli

Likson Gohain,

Pritisha

RTI, Fact

finding and

Litigation

June

5 Lakhimpur ● .Non implementation of Govt. Schemes

relating to health

● No blood bank, no ambulance service at

PHC, CHC and district hospital

● No specialization of doctors in govt hospitals

● Lack of Equipments and medicine

● Non implementation of PCPNDT

● Child Labor

● Human Trafficking

● Border Dispute

Uttara Goswami,

Pushpanjali Mili,

Lakhi Mai Borohua,

Raju and Pritisha

RTI, Fact

finding and

litigation

June

6 Sonitpur ● No Blood Bank

● No Ambulance services

● Witch Hunting

● Human Trafficking

● No food materials at Anganwadi center for 10

years

Dipali Sut,

Dhaneshwari

Kurmi, Barnabas

Kindo,Ananta

Hazarika, Alin,

Pabitor and Pritisha

RTI, Fact

finding and

litigation

June

● Lack of facilities, infrastructures and

medicines at health centers and district

hospitals

● Maternal Death

7 Darrang ● No doctor at health centers and hospitals

● Lack of medicines and ambulance services at

PHC and district hospitals

● Not implementation of IPHS standard

● Unhygienic conditions of district hospitals

● Maternal Deaths

Rajiv Deka, Sajid

Ali, Alin, Pritisha

20th June

8 Udalguri ● Witch Hunting

● Human Trafficking

● Non availability of doctors at district

hospitals, PHC, CHC and sub centers

Jayanta Kumar,

Raju and Manit

RTI, fact

finding and

litigations

June

9 Golaghat ● Non implementation of Govt. Schemes

relating to health

● No blood bank, no ambulance service

● Infant Mortality

● Lack of Equipments, medicines and doctors

at health centres and district hospitals

● Anemia

● Witch Hunting

● Assam-Nagaland border issues

Amiya Gogoi,

Pritisha

RTI, Fact

findings and

litigations

July

10 Barpeta ● Non availability of ambulance services

● Child Labor

● Child Marriage

● Infant Mortality

Amiruz Zaman

Choudhary, Reena

Choudhary, Swapna

Das, Farhana,

Pritisha

RTI, Fact

finding,

Research &

discussions

with

concerned

department

June

11 Kamrup ● No ambulance services Kakali Das, Sattar

Choudhary,

RTI, fact

findings and

June

● Non availability of ambulance services

● Non availability of medicines like iron , folic

acid tablets

Debasmita, Pritisha

litigation

12 Bongaigaon ● Child Marriage

● Unhygienic conditions of district hospitals

Tanu Devi,

Debashmita, Pritisha

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

July

13 Jorhat ● Maternal death in tea garden areas Bharti Gayon

Bordoloi, Masi

Topno, Pritisha

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

July

14 Tinsukia ● Insurgency

● Police Atrocities

● Domestic Violence

● Maternal Deaths

Anjali Das, Alin,

Pritisha

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

July

15 Nagaon ● Unhygienic condition at district hospital

● Regularization of ASHA workers salary

● Non availability of ambulance services

Manashi Gayan,

Anjali Baruah,

Farhana

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

July

16 Morigaon ● Lack of Equipments, medicines and doctors

at health centers and district hospitals

● Police Atrocities

Saswati Bora RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

June

17 Dhemaji Non availability of ambulance services

Non implementation of IPHS standards and

maternal schemes

Maternal Deaths

Harish Pegu, Manjit,

Rahju and Pritisha

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

June

18 Baksa Non availability of doctors at district

hospitals, PHC, CHC, sub- centers

Non availability of medicine at the hospitals

Satya Narayan Das,

Manju Das, Pritisha

RTI, fact-

findings and

litigation

June

and health centers

Outcome:

Asha Workers Salary:

By the end of the meeting Asha workers were motivated and next day they went to meet Mission

Director of National Health Mission (NHM), Assam and an official order was passed to increase

the amount of honarium from Rs 600/- to Rs 1000/- pm. with the effect from April, 2015.A copy

of notification order was sent to every district of Assam.

Involvement of lawyers in fact-finding:

After the meeting all the lawyers and civil society representatives showed enthusiasm in working

with us to solve out the gross violation of human rights in Assam. When few of our activist and

lawyers went for fact finding on 16th May, 2015 to Darrang, district lawyer representative from

Darrang and Dhemaji joined the team for fact-finding.