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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Activists to intensify demand for Dayamani Barla’s release

Activists to intensify demand for Dayamani Barla’s release

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published Published on Oct 28, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 28, 2012
-The Hindu

She led a movement against acquisition of farmland

Activists and supporters of Dayamani Barla, award-winning tribal activist and journalist who was released on bail in a case but arrested soon after in another case on October 19 in Ranchi, are preparing to intensify their demand for her release.

They have decided to move for her bail on November 29 and the Adivasi Moolvasi Astitva Raksha Manchi (AMARM) has announced a protest in front of Raj Bhavan the same day.

“The government’s intention is clear. They want to intimidate Dayamani and break the movement of the Nagri villagers, who are demanding the government build elite college campuses on non-agricultural land, instead of displacing them” said Father Stan Swamy, a Ranchi-based social activist.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Ranchi first sent a property warrant against Ms. Barla on September 23 this year in a 2006 case against her for leading a protest march demanding that villagers be given MGNREGA job cards or given unemployment allowance under the schemes in villages in Angada block in Ranchi district. At this time, Ms. Barla led a successful protest against the setting up of a steel plant by Arcellor Mittal over 11,000 acres in Gumla and Khunti citing Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, which prohibits sale of tribal land to non-tribals.

“Two days after Ms. Barla surrendered before the magistrate’s court in the 2006 case, which the government raked up after six years, she was given bail only on the condition that a blood relation will have to be present. This is not often done and shows the government is trying to make things difficult for her,” said Faisal Anurag, a Ranchi-based freelance journalist.

“When we went to the jail to receive her, the jail superintendent said a second warrant has been issued against her in an August 15 case for obstructing government work citing the incident when she led Nagri villagers to plough land on which government had built boundary walls,” he said.

Since 2010, Ms. Barla has been leading a movement against the Jharkhand government for acquiring 227 acres of farmers’ land in Nagri village, 15 km from Ranchi, for the campuses of the Indian Institute of Management, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and the National University of Study & Research in Law (NUSRL).

The government claims it acquired the land from them in 1957-58 to build an extension to Birsa Agricultural University. However, the Right to Information (RTI) applications filed by Ms. Barla revealed that of the 153 families to whom the government offered a total compensation in 1957, only 25 families in Nagri took it and the rest had refused.

Speaking to The Hindu on October 1, Ms. Barla challenged the government’s acquisition of this land using clause 17 (4) of the Land Acquisition Act, which is for situations of urgency such as building a railway line or an airport.

She led a peaceful protest in Nagri between March and June and between October 17 and 20, Nagri villagers went on a fast.

Mr. Anurag said Ms. Barla was a diabetic and made requests to be provided meals accordingly but the jail authorities had not cooperated.

The Hindu, 28 October, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/activists-to-intensify-demand-for-dayamani-barlas-release/article4039676.ece


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