http://sanhati.com/
January 29, 2014
By Prashant Rahi
Authors note: ALL QUERIES ABOUT
MY LEGAL
ISSUES AND NEEDS BE DIRECTED TO MY
ADVOCATE SHIV PRASAD SINGH, WHO IS AVAILABLE AT : Tel. +918303481839; Email :
shivpsingh@gmail.com
- PRASHANT RAHI
Dated : January 07, 2014
Dear friends,
Heart-felt greetings at the onset of yet another tumultuous years of struggle
for civil and democratic rights, which are increasingly threatened the world
over by police atrocities perpetrated here as a normal course, and there as
barbaric exceptions, in a setting of the yet retained post- 9/11 anti-terror
laws in India and other parts, even though the U.S. imperialists seem to be
back-tracking on their aggressive invasions in Iraq and Af-Pak! We, Indian
activists, remain vulnerable, with none of the Parliamentary political forces
even bothering to promise to repeal the 2008 and 2004 amendments in our
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act – UAPA of 1967, which was indeed
superfluous with the colonial Indian Penal Code (IPC)
already draconian enough to stifle any serious political dissent. My arrest and
torture in custody, as also that of Hem Mishra, the J.N.U. student of Chinese,
which so many of you have cared to express concern about, according to newspaper reports, could be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. Even
so, you might need to be apprised of the facts of our cases, and those of my
ongoing Uttarakhand post-torture trial, so as to direct the raging passions in
more effective ways.
It is with this view that I am putting
across the following facts regarding what befell us:-
1. Aheri, where our case is registered
as a Criminal Case No. 3017/2013, with the charge-sheet yet to be submitted and
not likely to be served until 6 months after our arrest, owing to the 2008 insertion
of Section 43 (d), with its Sub-section-2, in the UAPA, is a backward and
remote interior of Gadchiroli, where the state, with its heavy deployment of
specialized police and paramilitary forces and helicopter squadrons, appear to
have got an edge over the Maoist People’s Liberation Guerilla Army, well
entrenched in expansive forests of South Chhattisgarh among the adivasi
(aboriginal tribes) peasants, across the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh State border.
Part of Gadchiroli district is officially notified as a Police District,
whereby the usual District
Administration, Judiciary and “Development
Activities” are controlled by police officials, who in turn move around in the
towns and roadside villages like an occupation army,
the citizens compelled to finance their pay packets, enhanced 150 percent as
incentive, in addition to out of turn promotions and other allowances, and
overriding powers to lord over the populace.
- PRASHANT RAHI
Heart-felt greetings at the onset of yet another tumultuous years of struggle for civil and democratic rights, which are increasingly threatened the world over by police atrocities perpetrated here as a normal course, and there as barbaric exceptions, in a setting of the yet retained post- 9/11 anti-terror laws in India and other parts, even though the U.S. imperialists seem to be back-tracking on their aggressive invasions in Iraq and Af-Pak! We, Indian activists, remain vulnerable, with none of the Parliamentary political forces even bothering to promise to repeal the 2008 and 2004 amendments in our Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act – UAPA of 1967, which was indeed superfluous with the colonial Indian Penal Code (IPC) already draconian enough to stifle any serious political dissent. My arrest and torture in custody, as also that of Hem Mishra, the J.N.U. student of Chinese, which so many of you have cared to express concern about, according to newspaper reports, could be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. Even so, you might need to be apprised of the facts of our cases, and those of my ongoing Uttarakhand post-torture trial, so as to direct the raging passions in more effective ways.