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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Public figures write to PM on arrest of Kolkata scientist-Nitin Sethi

Public figures write to PM on arrest of Kolkata scientist-Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Apr 16, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 16, 2012

The high-handedness of the Trinamool government in West Bengal has now raised international concern. This time it's the arrest of Partho Sarothi Ray, a molecular biologist of international repute. National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy and renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky and more than four dozen other prominent scientists and public figures from across India and other countries have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get the academician released after he was arrested along with 68 others including several women and a 9-year-old girl on April 8. Of those arrested, 7 people including Ray have been detained in police custody for several days, and now six of them are in judicial custody and one in CID custody.

In their letter, the scientists and academics noted, "You might be aware that, recently the government of West Bengal has undertaken a massive eviction drive of slum dwellers with police force without any rehabilitation measures. As a natural protest against this unjustified police action, there were peaceful demonstrations by concerned citizens, for which prior permissions were arranged to the local police. In spite of this, Kolkata police used force and unjustified means to crack down on the demonstrators. It was while participating in a peaceful protest against the eviction of slum dwellers of Nonadanga area of East Kolkata, Ray was arrested."

Demanding immediate help to the doctor, they said, "In order to justify its high-handedness, the police slapped many dubious cases against Ray and others, such as Section 353 (assault on public servant), Section 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to public servant), Section 141 (unlawful assembly), Section 143 (punishment), Section 149 (common objective of disruption) of the IPC. The relation of these charges with the events (or lack thereof) of either 4th or peaceful demonstrations of 8th April has not been made clear at all. We are extremely concerned of the treatment meted out to Ray and others."

They added, "Incidentally, the excess of police has clearly not ended. On April 12, human rights activists were attacked and later arrested at a demonstration against the illegal evictions and the detention of Ray and others."

Ray is a faculty member of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

The Times of India, 16 April, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Public-figures-write-to-PM-on-arrest-of-Kolkata-scientist/articleshow/12681620.cms


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