Ranchi: Several organizations on Thursday formed a human chain while maintaining social distancing between Albert Ekka Chowk and Sarjana Chowk here demanding a CBI inquiry into the alleged suicide by sub-inspector Rupa Tirkey.
The protest was held to mark one month of the alleged suicide. Notably, Tirkey, a tribal woman who was posted as officer-in-charge of the women police station in Sahibganj district, was found hanging in her official quarter on May 3.
Police state that prima facie it was a case of suicide. Tirkey’s parents, however, say there are indications that their daughter was murdered and expressed no confidence in the police investigation.
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A group of more than 2,500 activists, academics and social workers from India and abroad have issued a public statement demanding the release of ailing Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, 84, languishing in a Mumbai jail for over five months in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Swamy’s bail plea was rejected by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Mumbai on March 22.
The public statement, whose signatories include people from Jharkhand and other parts of India and also citizens of countries such as the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has also demanded that the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act be repealed.
UN voice raps government on Stan Swamy He is one of 16 rights activists, lawyers, writers and academics arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case and charged with Maoist links
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, on Friday evening criticised the Indian government’s treatment of human rights activists such as Father Stan Swamy.
“India is a State which doesn’t properly protect human rights defenders. I am appalled by the treatment of human rights defenders such as Father Stan Swamy, who embodies solidarity,” Lawlor, an adjunct professor on business and human rights in the School of Business of Trinity College, Dublin, said.