Thanks for this valuable forward and the attached files. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:32 PM, ram puniyani <ram.puniy...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > *Subject:* [Citizen-Mumbai] Fwd: 14 activists arrested in Gujarat in the > name of Maoist activity since March 2010 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kavita Srivastava <kavis...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM > Subject: 14 activists arrested in Gujarat in the name of Maoist activity > since March 2010 > T > > *GUJARAT ARRESTS IN THE NAME OF MAOIST ACTIVITY* > > ** > > *A CALL FOR ALL TO UNITE AND GET ACTIVISTS RELEASED* > > > > The fishing expedition of Gujarat police has now reached Delhi. After > having arrested 13 trade unionists, forest rights activists and ordinary > workers of Gujarat against the omnibus FIR number* 1-37/2010 Police > station Kamrej, Surat range*, dated 26th of February, *u/s 120 (B), > 121(A), 124(A), 153 A& B of the IPC, and sec 38, 39 and 40 of the UAPA, > 2004, **Shakeel is the new catch, the 14th person arrested in this FIR on > 17th April, 2010. * > > ** > > Abdul Shakeel Pasha, for the last six years had been working relentlessly > with homeless and street children with organisations like *Aman > Biradari*(2004 to 2008) and since 2009 with > *Shahari Adhikar Abhiyan. *His work with Aman Biradari also took him to > Gujarat several times as the work on "Justice to the victims of the 2002 > Gujarat genocide" was carried out through the Nyaya Grah project of Aman > Biradari. > > ** > > I too interacted quite closely with him both when he was with Aman > Biradari. Since in the Centre for Equity Studies the office of Aman Biradari > was housed so was the work of the Supreme court commissioners in the Right > to Food case. So we used to go very frequently. When Bengali Speaking > Muslims were being arrested and evicted from Delhi he wanted our experience > on it including the court orders that we had procured from the Rajasthan > High Court. He also participated in several "release Dr. Binayak Sen" > programmes in Delhi where I met him. I worked with him when he and some > others undertook on behalf of the CES a study of the implementation of the > right to food schemes in Jaipur slums. As recently as April when he was > associated with the Shahari Adhikar Manch he was one of the key volunteers > of the dharna of the right to food campaign from 15 to 19 April, 2010. He > mobilised hundreds of people and got them to the dharna sthal.. > > > > > The Kamrej police station FIR was very cleverly filed, so that the hands of > the Gujarat police could be strengthened for the witch hunt of activists, > trade unionists and the newly emergent leadership working amongst the > tribals and dalits who are demanding their rights from the Indian State. It > is clear from the sections under which the people have been booked meaning > sedition, waging war against State, conspiracy and the UAPA sections of > being members and supporting a banned organisation that at the minimum > anybody arrested will stay in jail for two to three years before they are > granted bail. > > > > Courts in this country are not questioning these framed up cases and trials > take up so much time. Charge sheets have a large number of witnesses as well > as the moment the police feels that the case of the prosecution is getting > weak, they are notorious for filing more and more charge sheets. We have > seen this pattern in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and now in Gujarat. > > > > Secondly, they also moving with the assumption that following the arrests > of activists under these sections the brotherhood and sisterhood of the > activist world may be demoralised, they may be gripped by fear and thus they > get an edge in the psychological war that is taking place through the media, > when every now and then human rights activists are flogged for supporting > Maoist violence. > > > > Only the State of Gujarat could have entertained this kind of generalised > FIR, a piece of paper devoid of who is committing what crime, so vague that > all and sundry could be booked when it says, "this FIR is against the > underground leaders and members of banned Naxalite organization CPI (Maoist) > who are very secretly active and with the intention of starting > anti-national revolutionary people’s war by making at front the people > towards". > > > > The only remand paper that we have is of Avinash which actually throws more > light on the fishing expedition. How through the arrest of one of the > persons in Orissa, they reach Niranjan Mahapatra, the trade unionist from > Surat and then through him they have reached others. They also mentioned > that Avinash Kulkarni was with the CPI (Jan Shakti) even before he came and > worked in the Dangs in 1989. They go on to say that "Avinash Kulkarni played > behind the scene role of instigating tribals to start violent agitation and > as he was conducting naxalite activities of instigating the tribals by > remaining in touch with CPI (Maoist) through CPI (ML) Janshakti Party". > > > > Now all of us know that CPI (ML) Janshakti is an over ground party and has > been fighting elections for the last fifteen -seventeen years. And if in the > past somebody had some association, they have all the right to choose new or > redefine their ideologies. Each one has a right to begin lives afresh > according to our choice. Regarding Avinash Kulkarni, activists of Gujarat > have told us that he was pioneering the entire struggle in the area of > implementing the Forests Rights Act and when teh Government had rejeceted > over 80,000 claims of tribals, the people had carried out non-violent > protest. The Adivasi Maha Sabha has already condmened his arrest. > > > > This style of opening old files and picking up people is what the Andhra > Police had also done some time back, when they picked up in 2005 - 2006 > activists who in their student or youth days in the eighties had been with > some or the other ML group. I was told by Harish Dhawan of the PUDR that the > AP police rounded up so many activists that finally Mr. Bal Gopal took the > matter up with the Human Rights cell within the Anti Naxalite Operations of > AP. ( please note there is this cell in the ANO) following which harassment > stopped. > > > > The police learns very fast from each other so the "Fishing Expedition" run > by Andhra State Police has been adopted by Gujarat. But this time there is a > difference. The Central Government led by Chidambaram and others is > vehemently backing such actions of the State police. As well as the more you > show that Maoists are at work, it becomes easier for the different States to > get money in the name of combating Maoists. We are told that Haryana and > Punjab both got Rs. 50 crores in one stroke, after showing some fake cases > of people as Maoists. > > > > We had brought up the facts of these arrests clearly in our application to > the NHRC. Unfortunately, as I had mentioned in my earlier mails, that the > charge sheet was filed against 12 of the people arrested, soon after the > NHRC issued notices on the 4th of June, to the Gujarat DG police demanding > why they had arrested so many activists from the Dangs. As all of you are > aware once a case comes in a court (here the charge sheet), the NHRC does > not pursue the case. Although it can, however, it does not wish to petition > the court and get orders to continue investigating the case. > > > > The tasks that need to be done are as follows: > > > > - Informing the NHRC about the arrest of Shakeel in the case number > 501/6/23/2010/UC /M-2. This will be done by Pushkar Raj. > > > > - The 1800 page charge sheet should be obtained from the lawyers of the > 12 who were charge sheeted in Surat on 12th June. > > > > - We must also collect the remand papers of Kishore Kuruputty, Shakeel > from the lawyers in Surat. > > > > - Can somebody put together a short brief of all the persons arrested. > We have it for Avinash, Bharat Pawar and Krishna. > > > > - A brief profile on Shakeel somebody should write. > > > > - The profile of the ten others has to come from Gujarat. can somebody > take this responsibility and send it to us. > > > > - Coordination with the Gujarat groups including Darshan, PUCL Gujarat, > journalists like Nachikea Desai and lawyers like Mukul Sinha and others who > called a meeting on 8th June and had set up some committee's to follow up > on > these arrsts. > > > > - Participation in the 30th June dharna and rally in Ahmedabad against > these arrests. contact person: Hiren Gandhi: 09426181334 > > > > And finally, we need to ask ourselves especially when we are on the eve of > emergency day, 26th June, thirty five years later, whether we are going to > surrender our Constitutional rights of dissenting and holding and expressing > views, to the police state that India is becoming. > > > > This is a call for help to all friends that we get together and oppose the > terror unleashed by the Gujarat police. > > > > > > Kavita Srivastava ( National Secretary) > > > > *PS: I am attaching the application filed by the PUCL to NHRC, the show > cause notice issued by the NHRC, the translated version of the FIR and the > remand application of Avinash Kulkarni. * > > > > . > > > > > -- > Kavita Srivastava > (General Secretary) PUCL Rajasthan > > Address for correspondence : > > 76, Shanti Niketan Colony, Kisan Marg, Barkat Nagar, Jaipur-302015 > Tel. 0141-2594131 > mobile: 9351562965 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<humanrights-movement%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. 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