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Human Rights Forum (HRF) demanded that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the State governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana drop all accusations made against its AP&TS coordination committee member V.S. Krishna and all other members of rights, Dalit and women organisations, here on Tuesday.
They demanded an immediate stop to attempts to suppress dissent and said that HRF was not an associate of either the banned CPI (Maoist) or any other political party.
They also demanded that Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and sedition laws be removed from the statute books.
Releasing a press note, HRF’s A.P. State general secretary K. Sudha said that personnel of the NIA officials along with local police had raided the residence of Mr. Krishna on March 31, from 5.35 p.m. to 2.30 a.m, the next day and seized six hard disks, one mobile, three SIM cards, three SD cards and a few documents. All his and his family members bank details were photographed. The NIA team also interrogated him for about eight hours at their offices in Visakhapatnam on April 1 and 2.