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Anti-Posco activist illegally detained

Mar 9, 2012 | Pratirodh Bureau
Taking strong note of the illegal abduction and attack on anti-POSCO activist, Umakanta Biswal, several concerned citizens and organisations released a statement on Wednesday.
 
Biswal, an important and active member of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, was attacked and abducted reportedly by the Odisha Police while he was working on his farm. In the past also many anti-POSCO activists have been at the receiving end of the atrocities of the state government.
 
Fearing that Biswal might be subjected to torture in the police custody, the statement calls for an intervention by the National Human Rights Commission. It is being told that Biswal is yet to be produced in the court, and it is a clear case of illegal detention.   
 
Here is the full text of the statement: 
 
We strongly condemn the attack on and illegal abduction by the Odisha police of Umakanta Biswal, a famer belonging to Dhinkia village of Odisha, and an active member of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), that has been engaged over the last six years in resisting the forcible acquisition of their land by the Odisha government for handing over to the South Korean multinational corporation POSCO. This incident, which occurred on 2nd March 2012, is the latest in the series of atrocities inflicted by the Odisha government and by hired goons associated with the government and the POSCO company, on the people of these villages.
 
Umakanta Biswal, who was engaged in agricultural activity in his paddy field at the time of his abduction, was pursued by a group of armed plainclothes policemen on a motorbike, and shot at when he tried to escape. He has reportedly been kept in Paradip prison, and has not been produced in front of a magistrate within 24 hours of his arrest, as is required under law. We have cause to fear that he is being tortured in police custody, and are gravely concerned about his safety. This highly irregular, and illegal, form of detention of a citizen, amounting to a kidnapping by the police, is emblematic of the situation in which the villagers of the POSCO-affected area are living for the last six years, just because they have tried to protect their lives and livelihoods from being devastated by corporate greed.
 
Numerous villagers have multiple false cases lodged against them by the police, and people are in danger of being abducted and detained by the police while being engaged in day to day activities such as farming. There have also been incidents where a villager taking his sick child to hospital has been arrested by the police. This continuing victimization and violation of basic human rights of a whole community of people is intolerable, and goes against all tenets of constitutionality and humanity.
 
We condemn this brutal and illegal action by the Odisha government and demand that Umakanta Biswal be immediately produced in court and released. We hope request the National Human Rights Commisssion will take cognizance of this illegal detention and violation of rights of a citizen, which is symptomatic of the violation of rights of the entire community of villagers in the area of the proposed POSCO project.
 
List of signatories:
 
Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty    POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Samittee, New Delhi
Prafulla Samantara               NAPM and Lok Shakti Abhiyan
Prof. Ajit Jha                           Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Partho Sarathi Roy                SANHATI Collective
Kiran Shaheen                       Media Action Group, Delhi
Aarti Chokshi                         Secretary PUCL, Karnataka
Amit Chakrabarty                    Research Scholar, JNU
Mamta Das                            NFFPFW and POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi
Subrat Kumar Sahoo             POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Samittee, New Delhi
Kamayani Bali Mahabal          Lowyer Activist, Mumbai
Asit Das                                   POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity Samittee, New Delhi
Nayan Jyoti                              Krantikari Naujawan Sabha
Shankar Gopal Krishnan         Campaign for Survival and Dignity
Mayur Chetia                           Research Scholar JNU
Arya Thomas                           Krantikari Naujawan Sabha
P.K. Sunderam                       Research Scholar JNU
Bhanumati Gochhait               POSCO Pratirodh Solidarity, Delhi
Ranjeet Thakur                       Journalist, Uttarakhand
Rajni Kant Mudgal                  Socialist Front
Rita Kumari                            Pravasi Nagarik Manch
Pushpa Achanta                     Women against Sexual Violence State Repression Karnataka
Students for Resistance Deli University and JNU

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