Machal Lalung

[2] Lalung was booked under section 326 of the Indian Penal Code for "causing grievous harm", a charge which normally results in a sentence of no more than 10 years’ imprisonment.

As a result of the Commission's intervention, his case was heard and he was released on June 1, 2005, after paying a token bond of one Indian rupee.

[4][3] Following his release, the Indian Supreme Court, taking suo motu notice, ordered the State Government to pay Lalung a compensation of Rs.

[6] After he was released from Gopinath Bordoloi Mental Hospital in 2005, a Supreme Court lawyer F. I. Choudhury wrote letter to then CJI Justice R. C. Lahoti regarding the plight of Lalung.

In this case finally Supreme Court of India passed detail judgment regarding the undertrials who are languishing either in jail or mental hospital.

[5] Pranjal Kumar Mahanta, a correspondent of Assamese magazine Bismoi, met Lalung while preparing a report about him, and showed him a copy of Aneisha Sharma's film.