-IANS   Soni Sori, the tribal teacher who was held in Delhi last week on charges of being a Maoist conduit and is hospitalised here with head and back injuries, Wednesday said Chhattisgarh Police were treating her like a criminal. "They (police) are treating me like a hardcore criminal. They had put a chain on my legs... I oppose such moves by police," Sori told some mediamen at a government hospital here...

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...

Soni Sori, a 36 year old adivasi school teacher arrested in New Delhi on charges of being a Maoist, and sent to Dantewada for police interrogation, was admitted to the district hospital on Monday morning with head and back injuries. "She was unconscious when she was brought here around 9.30 am," said Dr SPS Shandilya, chief medical officer. An X- ray confirmed the injuries. "She has contusions on the right side of...

-IBN   Dalits were attacked by upper caste people at Mutthur village in Periyapatna taluk on Wednesday night. It is said that on Wednesday, a group of Dalit youths and Shivanna, an upper caste person entered into a heatred exchange. Following by this, the upper caste people attacked Dalits.   Accepting the complaint filed by one M J Deepak, Periyapatna police have arrested 7 persons on charges of comitting atrocity on dalits. As a...

A tiny road flanked by lush turmeric and maize fields veers off the state highway from Dharmapuri to Harur in Tamil Nadu towards Vachathi, a tribal village that has hungered for justice for nearly two decades after an irreparable tragedy destroyed its peace. Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills...