Machang Lalung, who was kept under custody for more than half a century without a trial and forgotten, is dead released in July 2005.
The 77-year-old man was beginning to savour freedom with his family in his village near Tezpur when death snatched him away.
Lalung was only 23 when he was arrested in 1951 for a petty crime and never faced a trial. He went on to serve almost 54 years initially in police custody and later on at the Tezpur Mental hospital.
Lalung was in custody for so long that he even forgot the reason why he was sent to jail in the first place. After living in an asylum for so long, Lalung could barely put his thoughts across. He lived his last days with his niece Sadhna Pator. But for the 77-year-old justice came 54 years too late.
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