Tribal body seeks trial in Anjel Chakma murder case outside Uttarakhand

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In this screengrab from a video posted connected  December 29, 2025, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami speaks connected  the telephone  with the begetter  of the precocious   pupil  Angel Chakma, a Tripura pupil  who allegedly died pursuing  a racist onslaught  successful  Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

In this screengrab from a video posted connected December 29, 2025, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami speaks connected the telephone with the begetter of the precocious pupil Angel Chakma, a Tripura pupil who allegedly died pursuing a racist onslaught successful Dehradun, Uttarakhand. | Photo Credit: X/@pushkardhami via PTI

GUWAHATI

The All India Chakma Students’ Union (AICSU) has urged Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to displacement the “racially motivated” Anjel Chakma execution proceedings retired of the State.

A 24-year-old MBA pupil from Tripura, Chakma was stabbed by a radical of allegedly inebriated boys successful Dehradun connected December 9. He died astatine a infirmary successful the Uttarakhand superior connected December 26.

AICSU president Drishyamuni Chakma said connected Monday (December 29, 2025) that the national wrote to the Chief Minister demanding the transportation of the case, preferably to Delhi, arsenic the household of the deceased “has mislaid religion successful the Uttarakhand police”. He besides suggested that the lawsuit beryllium handed implicit to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The lapses see a three-day hold successful registering the First Information Report (FIR), the refusal by the Selakui constabulary presumption unit to registry the ailment connected aggregate occasions, the nonaccomplishment of the constabulary to invoke due Sections of the instrumentality astatine the archetypal stage, and attempts by elder constabulary officials to dilute the transgression by portraying it arsenic a combat portion ignoring elements of radical abuse.

The AICSU besides raised sedate concerns regarding lapses by the infirmary authorities, noting that the unfortunate was admitted successful a captious information to a backstage hospital, which did not pass the constabulary immediately, arsenic required successful a medico-legal case.

The national argued that the information of Chakma’s household members and the cardinal eyewitnesses warrants the transportation of the execution proceedings extracurricular Uttarakhand to guarantee a just and impartial judicial process.

“Action should beryllium taken against the constabulary officials concerned, for not registering the FIR and for misleading oregon distorting facts and protecting the accused. The absconding accused indispensable beryllium arrested immediately,” the AICSU president said, demanding the invocation of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act successful the case, and a compensation of ₹2 crore to the victim’s family.

Published - December 29, 2025 06:44 p.m. IST

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