[chhattisgarh-net] Digest Number 1739

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:42:28 -0800

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Re: Information on Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Natya Samaroh by IPTA Ra

Posted by: "girish mishra" mgiris...@yahoo.co.in   mgirishin

Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:01 pm (PST)

Dear Sudha,
 
Appreciate your concern and taken this in a positive spirit only. Since this mail is to the group, it’s must that members should know the facts. Jindal had given some 1,00,000  three years before and it was not sponsorship, we all must have organized some or the other events in our life and we know that the in 1 L it’s difficult to organize anything.
 
No jay jay kar was done for Jindal
 
About Shri Vishwaranjan, he is a writer and poet and comes from a well known family ( he is grandson of Firakh Gorakhpuri). We can not mix professional and personal activities.
 
 The Great Russian – Ukraine scientist Vladimir Vernadsky wrote “Where should we seek our pillar? In infinity, in creative action, in the infinite capacities of the human mind”
 
I am thankful to you for appreciating efforts by IPTA, but please understand everything is not sponsored.
 
If you are in Raipur please come and enjoy the play, you will realize the efforts put in by members of IPTA.
 
Thanks
 
Girish Mishra

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Re: Information on Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Natya Samaroh by IPTA Ra

Posted by: "rahul" aaroh...@yahoo.com   aarohini

Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:56 am (PST)

Arranging funds for progressive activities is always a problem. Whether they are cultural action or political or legal action. Some people have succeeded in keeping their funding sources absolutely pure and all kudos to them. However i must confess that i myself have not been able to do so. working at a very small level it is possible to use tainted funds and yet retain operational and ideological independence as i have done but it is doubtful whether a full challenge to the present system can be mounted on the strength of such funding. the problem is that the people we work for are so immiserised that they just cannot bear the heavy expenses of sustained progressive action of any kind. the khedut mazdoor chetna sangath for example which had managed to sustain itself somehow all these years on funds contributed by well wishers and adivasi members took a decision last year to source institutional funding and has as a consequence considerably increased its
activities and impact. so as long as like girish we are aware of the shortcomings of such funding in the long run i feel it may be useful to source such funds in the short run without in any way justifying this.

Rahul Banerjee

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--- On Wed, 14/1/09, girish mishra <mgiris...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
From: girish mishra <mgiris...@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [chhattisgarh-net] Re: Information on Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Natya Samaroh by IPTA Ra

Dear Sudha,

Appreciate your concern and taken this in a positive spirit only. Since this mail is to the group, it’s must that members should know the facts. Jindal had given some 1,00,000 three years before and it was not sponsorship, we all must have organized some or the other events in our life and we know that the in 1 L it’s difficult to organize anything.


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Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting minor girls: Police

Posted by: "sri venkat" ahvenkit...@gmail.com   viji123

Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:22 pm (PST)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Chhattisgarh_Maoists_recruiting_minor_girls_Police/articleshow/3976432.cms

Chhattisgarh Maoists recruiting minor girls: Police
14 Jan 2009, 1025 hrs IST, IANS

RAIPUR: Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh are recruiting minor girls
as part of a stepped-up drive to get members for a women's wing, say
police.

The Maoists, who run a de facto administration in the state's vast
southern mineral-rich Bastar region, are trying to get cadres for the
Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh, said a senior police officer.

"Maoist militants are now on a stepped-up drive to recruit minors,
mainly female adolescents, because it's easier to brainwash them,"
Pawan Deo, a senior officer at the police's special intelligence
branch (SIB) here, said.

"The forced recruitment drive in the Bastar hinterland is now
basically to fill up hundreds of slots vacated due to mass desertion
of Communist Party of India-Maoist cadres due to relentless police
pressure and exposure of the myth of Maoist ideology," he claimed.

Vishwa Ranjan, the state's police chief, had earlier said that roughly
10,000 highly militarised insurgents operate in Chhattisgarh, backed
by another 35,000-40,000 cadres called 'Sangham members'.

"Some 30 percent or 15,000 of a total of 50,000 armed rebels are
female insurgents who actively participate in carrying out major
strikes against civilians and police forces," said Ranjan, who was
additional director in the country's Intelligence Bureau (IB) before
he became state police chief.

All five districts in the 40,000 sq km Bastar region have witnessed a
string of deadly attacks on police bases and civilians since June 2005
when a government backed civil militia movement, Salwa Judum, was
launched to take on militants in two districts - Dantewada and
Bijapur, the nerve centre of militants' since early 1980s.

In March 2007, the rebels launched their biggest attack so far,
killing 55 policemen in an overnight attack on a police outpost in
Bijapur district.

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Indian Express: Witnesses, jail records don’t back state govt

Posted by: "Anoop Saha" anoops...@gmail.com   anoopsaha

Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:32 pm (PST)

Witnesses, jail records don't back state govt's charge against Binayak Sen
Vinay Sitapati Posted: Jan 14, 2009 at 0225 hrs IST

New Delhi: Dr Binayak Sen, arrested by the Chhattisgarh Government on the
charge of conspiring with and being a conduit between Naxalites, has been in
jail for 19 months now. Denied bail twice, his trial began in the Raipur
sessions court on April 30, 2008, a year after his arrest. Thirty eight
prosecution witnesses have been examined so far, and the case is fast
unravelling.

The case against Sen, a practising doctor, centres on the allegation that he
illegally carried incriminating letters from jailed Naxalite Narayan Sanyal,
arrested for plotting to kill former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu, to another Naxalite Piyush Guha.

The Chhattisgarh government supports this key allegation against Sen with
the following pieces of evidence:

- The government is relying on the custodial confession of Piyush Guha,
made in front of two witnesses. Custodial confessions, however, are
inadmissible in Indian courts for fear of incentivising torture. Guha
subsequently stated before a magistrate — and in an affidavit filed before
the court — that he was tortured by police to "confess". He is not listed as
a prosecution witness in the current trial.
- The government alleges that Sen and Guha were close acquaintances who
met regularly in Raipur hotels. As evidence, the state relies on (legally
inadmissible) statements that the hotel owners and employees made to the
police. But while being examined as prosecution witnesses in the ongoing
trial, the hotel owners and employees turned hostile, stating in open court
that they "can identity neither Binayak Sen nor Piyush Guha".
- The government alleges that Sen visited Naxalite Narayan Sanyal 33
times in jail, where Sen falsely posed as Sanyal's relative. In a bid to
discredit this, Sen's wife Ilina filed a Right to Information application to
access the jail records. The records, available with The Indian Express,
show that Sen, far from posing as Sanyal's relative, applied for jail visits
using human rights group PUCL's stationery, where Sen worked as Chhattisgarh
general secretary. Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan isn't convinced.
He dismisses the PUCL as being a "possible front organisation of the
Naxalites".
- The government is relying on three letters recovered from Guha as
evidence of Sen's guilt. But as Sen's lawyer Mahendra Dubey points out "what
the letters say are irrelevant to Binayak Sen, if the state can't prove that
he handed them over to Guha".

The police have placed on record more evidence of Sen's alleged Naxal
leanings. They point to documents and a computer CPU seized from his house.

The Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Hyderabad examined the CPU and
their findings — in DVD format — have been submitted to the trial court. The
DVD, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, lists Sen's CPU as
containing anti-Salwa Judum and anti-globalisation pamphlets. Sen's wife
says that these are standard "activist material" and that "anti-Salwa Judum
and pro-Naxalite are two entirely different things".

Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian produced evidence in the
Supreme Court that Sen had taken part in a "suspicious" meeting.

The meeting was also attended by B D Sharma, former Commissioner, Scheduled
Castes and Tribes, who dismisses this as "a legal meeting of registered
NGOs".

The Chhattisgarh government has produced a love letter, allegedly between
two Naxalites, where Sen's name finds mention.

These and a few other allegations in themselves don't relate to the
commission of a crime. They make sense only in the context of the main
allegation against Sen: carrying incriminating letters from one Naxalite to
another.

But, if nothing else, they guarantee a prolonged trial running for two,
perhaps even three years.

Chhattisgarh Governor and former Intelligence Bureau head ESL Narasimhan
declined to be interviewed because "my constitutional position does not
permit me to respond.

The DGP is better placed to make such comments". DGP Vishwa Ranjan says "it
is wrong of Binayak's supporters to make such public statements. Evidence is
a matter for the courts". BJP spokesperson and Chhattisgarh party in-charge
Ravi Shankar Prasad is more forthright: "Binayak Sen might have played a
small part but he is nonetheless part of Naxal violence". State Congress
leader Ajit Jogi, on the other hand, alleges that the case is fabricated:
"If I was chief minister, my first decision would have been to free Binayak
Sen".

The collapsing case in the trial court, however, had no effect on the
Chhattisgarh High Court's decision to refuse Sen bail in November 2008. Sen
remains in Raipur Central Jail, sick with "persistent loss of weight, heart
problems, arthritis" and possibly more.

Innocence or guilt is for the court to judge. It's hard, though, to ignore
the political context to the case. At one level is the law — the
Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act — which many believe has upset what
Home Minister P Chidambaram terms the "fair balance" between countering
Terror and protecting rights.

At another level is the BJP government's controversial Salwa Judum militia —
where villagers are armed to take on the Naxals. Sen was a vociferous
campaigner against the alleged human rights atrocities of the Salwa Judum.
At a third level are Naxal atrocities and the very real danger of parts of
Chhattisgarh going out of control.

— (To be continued)
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