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His counsel, Angshuman Bora, told TOI , "We have got bail for four weeks to appeal in the high court. Our stand is that Amitav Sinha had only interrogated the murder accused, who was a charge-sheeted professional killer. The court found Sinha guilty under IPC Section 330 (voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession ).Immediately after the verdict, Sinha obtained bail. GUWAHATI: A district sessions court in Guwahati on Thursday sentenced Goalpara SP Amitav Sinha to two years' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 after it found him guilty of torturing a murder accused in custody five years ago. He had gone to interrogate Gurmeet, who was arrested from J&K in connection with the murder of a Guwahati-based businessman, Ajit Singh, in 2012..