S. Talapatra, J.

1. On consensus of the counsel representing the parties, this petition is taken up for disposal at the motion stage in consideration of the urgency attached to the matter. The petitioner is the wife of a slain journalist, namely Anil Majumder who was holding the post of Executive Editor of an Assamese daily, Aji. On 24-3-2009 when the said journalist was returning home by his car being AS-01-A-8-5973 and when his car reached a nearby place to his residence at Rajgarh road at about 10 p.m. and he was getting down from the said car, he was shot at allegedly by a group of unknown persons who were waiting at that spot. The driver of the vehicle is an eye-witness to the said gruesome murder. It is averred that one Khagen Sarma lodged the FIR with the Officer-in-Charge of Chandmari police station briefly narrating the commission of the said cognizable offence and the police on receipt of the said FIR registered the Chandmari PS case No. 114 of 2009 under Section 302/34, IPC read with Section 27 of the Arms Act. It further appears from the narrative as embodied in the writ petition that the killing of the said journalist stirred a sharp reaction in the society part