DU prof Nandini refutes charges of murder, calls it a conspiracy
Rashmi Drolia | TNN | 10 hours ago
RAIPUR: After Bastar police registered an FIR against her on the charge of murder and criminal conspiracy, Delhi University professor Nandni Sundar on Tuesday alleged that the move was part of the Chhattisgarh police's series of ongoing attempts to intimidate activists, lawyers, journalists and others raising the issue of human rights violations in tribal Bastar region.
While in the past, there were numerous instances of activists, lawyers and journalists were forced to leave Bastar, police had also sought link names of Nandni Sundar and others with Maoists on the basis of "written complaints" by local villagers. However, every time activist groups have dismissed it as theories cooked up by the police. "I have never been to that region for the last five months. Charges are absurd", Nandni Sundar told media via skype as she is currently out of the country after Bastar police registered an FIR against her and others.
"I had filed petitions in the Supreme Court. Recently, the CBI had indicted policemen in Bastar for setting ablaze houses of tribals during an anti-naxalite operation at Tadmetla in 2011", she said adding that it's a clear case of police trying to implicate me and others in false cases. Pointing out a case is coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court on November 11, Sundar said she would seek legal advice in the matter. "After CBI indictment of police, policemen in all the seven districts of Bastar staged a public protest and also burnt my effigy. It's an unprecedented protest organised under the patronage of Bastar inspector general of police SRP Kalluri", she alleged.
"It's a conspiracy against me. We have raised the issue of killings ever since Salwa Judum started in 2005. We want to end violence in the tribal region", she said adding that Bastar police has been intimidating everyone right from social activists, journalists and all others who were raising voice against killings in Bastar", she added.
While in the past, there were numerous instances of activists, lawyers and journalists were forced to leave Bastar, police had also sought link names of Nandni Sundar and others with Maoists on the basis of "written complaints" by local villagers. However, every time activist groups have dismissed it as theories cooked up by the police. "I have never been to that region for the last five months. Charges are absurd", Nandni Sundar told media via skype as she is currently out of the country after Bastar police registered an FIR against her and others.
"I had filed petitions in the Supreme Court. Recently, the CBI had indicted policemen in Bastar for setting ablaze houses of tribals during an anti-naxalite operation at Tadmetla in 2011", she said adding that it's a clear case of police trying to implicate me and others in false cases. Pointing out a case is coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court on November 11, Sundar said she would seek legal advice in the matter. "After CBI indictment of police, policemen in all the seven districts of Bastar staged a public protest and also burnt my effigy. It's an unprecedented protest organised under the patronage of Bastar inspector general of police SRP Kalluri", she alleged.
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