He was arrested in Kolkata by West Bengal Police on 8 April 1998[1][2] and put in judicial custody at Guwahati.

[3][4] A former electricity board employee Gogoi hails from Sibsagar district of Assam.

He was granted the bail on conditions that he would not travel abroad till the disposal of the cases, would deposit his passport in the court and not leave the area under the jurisdiction of the without prior permission from the court and if he decides to live in Sivasagar, his hometown, he must regularly report to the police there.

The decision of the other cases registered against him will be heard on 23 February 2010.

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