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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NHRC gives clean chit to Chhattisgarh Government on Soni Sori-Suvojit Bagchi

NHRC gives clean chit to Chhattisgarh Government on Soni Sori-Suvojit Bagchi

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published Published on Apr 15, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 15, 2013
-The Hindu


Raipur: While various national women's organisations decried an attempt to make Soni Sori, the tribal school teacher accused of acting as a courier between Essar Steel and outlawed Maoists, undergo a "psychiatric evaluation" as a "sinister ploy" by the Chhattisgarh government, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has given a clean chit to the State government on the treatment meted out to the tribal school teacher. Last week, Ms. Sori informed the NHRC members that she has been "treated better" over the last few months, the NHRC claimed in a press statement.

Several national women's organisations in Delhi decried psychiatric examination conducted on Ms. Sori recently in Jagdalpur jail where she is currently lodged. In a joint statement, seven women's organisations said that in December 2012, a team of National Commission of Women (NCW) conducted a jail visit here and met Ms. Sori in custody.

"While the NCW report of the visit is still pending, a stray remark made by NCW member Shamina Shafiq, that Ms. Sori needed psychological counselling seems to have provided the Chhattisgarh government the pretext to carry out a full-fledged psychiatric evaluation on her, with the potential of declaring her mentally unsound," the organisations said in a joint statement. Annie Raja, general secretary of National Federation of Indian Women, who was also part of the NCW team visiting the jail, pointed out that Ms. Shafiq's remark was not an opinion shared by the entire team and hence, does not have the legitimacy of a formal observation. Hence, in a letter to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, the organisations demanded quashing of further proceedings in "psychiatric evaluation" and initiate steps to redress Ms. Sori's genuine grievances of "sexual torture and ill-treatment."

Another statement issued by the NHRC a day after the statement made by the women's organisation, however, gave a clean chit to the Chhattisgarh government. The NHRC sent a two-member team to Jagdalpur jail on April 10 to "meet her to know her condition."

"Ms. Sori informed the team that she has been treated better since the NHRC's last visit," the statement said. The Commission expressed "hope that the jail authorities would continue to give proper treatment to Ms. Sori." A.G. Balakrishnan, chief of the Commission Justice, read out the statement here.

While the NHRC's maiden ‘full commission' in Chhattisgarh ended in a damp squib on Friday, the Commission took up certain matters and asked the government for a follow-up report. For example, in the case of 7,000 allegedly fake hysterectomies under the Centre's insurance scheme Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY), the Commission has asked the State government for a detailed report within a month. Hysterectomies, or removal of the uterus, have been carried out in 169 hospitals in Chhattisgarh to claim money under RSVY, according to the Commission's press statement.

In two cases of fake encounters, mentioned in the press statement, the Commission recommended a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased. Those killed in separate police encounters are Kunjami Joga of Kurtrem village of Dantewada and a Naxalite named Ramesh Barumana for "violation of human rights". Compensation has also been recommended in cases of custodial killing of 25-year-old trial prisoner Kunjami Kosa and Santosh Dahriya. The State government "gracefully agreed" to pay compensation in all the cases, said the statement.


The Hindu, 15 April, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nhrc-gives-clean-chit-to-chhattisgarh-government-on-soni-sori/article4618718.ece


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