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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Judicial remand for Adivasi woman in ‘protection money' case by Aman Sethi

Judicial remand for Adivasi woman in ‘protection money' case by Aman Sethi

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published Published on Oct 11, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 11, 2011

She was accused of acting as courier between Maoists and Essar group

Soni Sori, an Adivasi woman accused of acting as a courier between the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Essar group, was remanded in judicial custody by the first class judicial magistrate, Yogita Vinay Wasnik, here on Monday.

Ms. Sori was arrested in New Delhi on suspicions that she served as a conduit for transferring funds between Essar and the Maoists to safeguard the company's assets in rebel-controlled areas in Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.. Ms. Sori is also charged with aiding the Maoists in three other unrelated incidents. Both Ms. Sori and the Essar group have denied the charges of aiding the guerrillas in any way.

In a court in Delhi last week, Ms. Soni's lawyers argued against transferring her to a jail in Chhattisgarh as Ms. Soni said she feared for her safety. But the Chhattisgarh police were granted two days to question her, with the proviso that they make arrangements for her personal security.

On Monday morning, in Dantewada, Ms. Soni was rushed to a hospital with a head and back injury, prompting concerns that her fears might have proved prophetic. Ms. Soni said she had not been physically tortured by the police, but had lost consciousness after two days of intense interrogation.

“I was mentally tortured for two days. They kept asking me the same questions again and again. I could barely eat,” she said in an interview at the district hospital in Dantewada in the presence of policemen. “This morning, I fainted in the bathroom of the police station and fell and hurt my head and my hip,” she said.

Ms. Soni's lawyer Kshitij Dubey said Ms. Soni was not physically produced before the Magistrate, but her statement was recorded by the court reader in a police jeep. “Ms. Soni could not walk into the courtroom, so a reader was sent to the jeep to record her statement,” Mr. Dubey said, adding that Ms. Soni told the reader and her lawyer that her injuries were from a fall in the bathroom of the police station.

“Ms. Soni has been transferred to a hospital in Jagdalpur for a C.T. scan and check-up,” said Mr. Dubey, “She will be sent to judicial custody once she is discharged from the hospital.”

Ms. Soni's testimony may prove significant when the case is finally brought to court. In a prior interview with this correspondent, she had maintained that she and her nephew Lingaram Kodopi, another accused in the case, had been framed by the police.

* Soni Sori, Essar group deny aiding the guerrillas in any way
* She was rushed to a Dantewada hospital with a head and back injury


The Hindu, 11 October, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2527114.ece


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