Specify timeline to pay damages for razed houses: HC to Assam

Gauhati high court has directed Assam govt to specify in a week the “time by which compensation will be paid” to the six families whose houses were demolished in Nagaon district in 2022. The houses were demolished a day after a mob set Batadrava police station ablaze in protest against the custodial death of a fish vendor, Safiqul Islam, on May 21, 2022.