Neso writes to Dhami, seeks death penalty for Anjel’s killers

Shillong: The North East Students’ Organisation (Neso) has written to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, seeking death penalty for those accused in the assault on Tripura youth Anjel Chakma in Dehradun. In a reported racial attack, Chakma, 24, was stabbed on Dec 9 and died of his injuries on Dec 26 while undergoing treatment.His brother Micheal Chakma was also assaulted. “The only reason being they looked differently from the rest of the Aryan race and were hurled with racial abuses which were demeaning and degrading. Neso vehemently condemns such atrocities perpetrated against the North East people and it may be reminded that people from the northeast have been facing these kind of harassments in different parts of India which in many cases have proved to be fatal,” the Neso memorandum said. The organisation has sought “urgent intervention” by the chief minister to ensure effective measures by appropriate authorities to provide “mental, social and physical security” to students and people from the North East studying and residing in Dehradun and other parts of Uttarakhand. NESO demanded “capital punishment to the perpetrators of the heinous crime” at the earliest.