-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...

Shri Ram Sena activist held for brutal assault Senior lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan was violently attacked by activists of the Shri Ram Sena and a previously unknown outfit, Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, in his chamber located opposite the heavily guarded Supreme Court premises on Bhagwan Dass Road here on Wednesday. The organisations claimed that the assault was in retaliation for his recent statement on Jammu and Kashmir, purportedly...

PALNAR/SAMELI (DANTEWADA): They sat watching cartoons on TV a day after their mother was arrested in faraway Delhi on charges of acting as a conduit/courier for Maoists.  While adivasi school teacher Soni Sori faces police interrogation in Chhattisgarh for her role in an alleged pay off by Essar group to Maoists, her children, Muskaan (12), Deependera (10) and Amrita (6) are at their uncle Ramdev's house in Palnar village for a...

-CNN-IBN   Senior lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan has been beaten up by three people inside his chamber in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Bhushan was beaten up by three people belonging to a little known outfit Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, which claimed that the lawyer was beaten up because of his comments on granting azadi to Kashmiris if they do not want to live with India. Three activists belonging to...

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...