From Our Correspondent
Sivasagar (Assam), Nov 4: The Assam Police have claimed to have killed, Ghanakanta Gogoi, the main accused in the gory Guwahati Hotel Bilas Inn firing case where 5 people were killed last week.
According to police, Gogoi died at an encounter on the way to Sivasagar from Guwahati on Wednesday wee hours.
The incident took place at Jhanji, around 200 KM away from Guwahati when he was taken to a local court in Sivasagar in connection with a separate case on Wednesday.
As the team reached Jhanji on the way to Sivasagar early in the morning, Gogoi allegedly started attacking the policemen accompanying him and tried to escape forcing the policemen to retaliate where he died on the spot.
Notably, he was the prime accused in the October 26 firing at Hotel Bilas Inn in Guwahati’s Bora Service area where the family of the hotel owner was killed.
Police had arrested Gogoi soon after the incident and recovered a licensed .32-bore pistol allegedly used in the crime.
