Sirs, It has been brought to our attention that an adivasi woman Sodi Sambo of Gompa village, who is understandably the lone surviving witness of a massacre carnied out by the state forces together with a Salwa Judum brigade in a Dantewada village on October 1 last, and herself a victim being shot in her leg, has been detained earlier today while travelling in the company of noted Gandhian from the region, Shri Himanshu Kumar, on her way to Delhi for medical treatment. Reportedly she is still in police custody at the Kanker Police Station at the instance of the Dantewada SP, Sh. Amaresh Mishra.
May we, in this context, draw your attention to the fact that as per the current provisions of the Cr. PC no women shall be arrested after sunset and before sunrise except in exceptional circumstances. And the police will also be required to give information about the arrest of a person as well as place of detention to anyone who may be nominated by the accused. A provision for compensating a person who has been detained by the police without any valid ground has also been made. Given the circumstances of the case and the blood-stained track records of the Chhattisgarh state administration, we do request you to immediately look into the illegal detention of Sodi Sambo and ensure her immedaite release and her safe transport to Delhi for further medical treatment of her wound in the leg and malaria she is now suffering from. This appeal for understandable reason is also being released to the press and wider public. Hope you will kindly appreciate the gravity of the situation and act with appropriate promptness. Thanking you in anticipation. Yours Sukla Sen for EKTA (Committee for Communal Amity), Mumbai 03 01 2010 -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
