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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Redress wronged tribal women: HC by Supriya Sharma

Redress wronged tribal women: HC by Supriya Sharma

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published Published on Jun 20, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 20, 2010


In recent years, Chhattisgarh police has been under a cloud for human rights violations in the conflict zone of Bastar. So far, the allegations have not been proved in a court of law, making it virtually impossible for victims to claim compensation. But on Friday, for the first time, the High Court of Chhattisgarh directed the state government to compensate the widows of three men allegedly killed by the police.

The women went to court in April 2008 alleging their husbands were killed by an assistant sub-inspector and two special police officers. Two years later, hearings in the case continue and the culpability of the police is yet to be established. But on Friday, the court took note of the "pitiable condition" of the tribal women. In an interim order, it asked the district collector to "take appropriate steps for extension of relief whatsoever is provided under state policy".

The case relates to murders that took place in a Salwa Judum camp in Matwada in Bijapur in March 2008. Bijapur is the district that witnessed the maximum violence in clashes between Salwa Judum and Maoists during 2006-2008.

Police records show an FIR filed on March 19, 2008, by Aayete Madkamee, stating that her husband Madda and two other men were picked up from the camp at night and killed by Maoists for attending Salwa Judum rallies. Aayete alleged that the FIR was not filed by her but concocted by the police. She said her husband and two others were killed not by Maoists but by ASI Ghanshyam Patel and a group of SPOs.

Aayete filed a writ petition along with the widows of the other dead men, and Kudiyam Somdu, a man who survived the incident with three broken ribs and bullet injuries. The victims were helped by an NGO, Vanvasi Chetna Ashram, which is co-petitioner in this case as well as at least a dozen others, according to its lawyer Sourabh Dangi.

Apart from the cases being heard by the high court, a writ petition was filed in 2007 in the Supreme Court by Delhi-based sociologist Nandini Sundar and others, alleging large-scale killings by Salwa Judum and the police. A team of the National Human Rights Commission travelled to Bastar in the summer of 2008 to investigate the allegations on behalf of the Supreme Court. It found many allegations were "based on hearsay", several others were unsubstantiated or unverifiable, but asked for an inquiry into "some instances of extra-judicial killings by the police".

The Matwada murders is one of the cases where the NHRC team found the allegations to be "prima facie true". In its report, it questions the police version that Maoists killed the three men. It points out that the houses of the men were barely 30 metres from a police watch tower, and a CRPF sentry stayed on guard on the road leading to the camp.


The Times of India, 21 June, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Redress-wronged-tribal-women-HC/articleshow/6072797.cms


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