The letter states that the commission received a complaint from one Prasoon Masar, a tribal rights activist from Mahisagar of Gujarat, who alleged that the Gujarat ATS has illegally kept Kachhap in custody by filing a fake first information report (FIR) and subsequent fake chargesheet in the case.
Kachhap (33), a native of Dorbanda in Ranchi of Jharkhand was arrested from Mahisagar on July 24 along with two other workers — Samu Oreya and Birsa Oreya, both natives of Jharkhand and residing in Vyara taluka of Tapi — for allegedly “trying to instigate the local adivasi community towards violent uprising against the state government”.