When Process Is Punishment: Hidme Markam s Activism and the Sketchy Cases Against Her
Markam knew she would soon become a target â every tribal rights activist confronting state repression in Bastar faces a similar fate.
Hidme Markam amid heavy paramilitary deployment at a protest in Dantewada. Photo: Deependra Sori
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): Hidme Markamâs arrest was inevitable.
Over the past decade, the 28-year-old Adivasi rights activist from Permapara in Burgum village of Dantewada district in southern Chhattisgarh had immersed herself in the peopleâs movement, fighting both the police and the Naxals in equal measure. There are hardly any villages in the conflict-torn Dantewada district that Markam hadnât reached â gathering evidence of both police and Naxal excesses, and strategising ways to fight a legal battle. As a pivotal part of the Jail Bandi Rihai Manch (Committee for the Release of Arrested Persons), Markam, along with other tribal rights acti
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Noida: Four doctors and a manager of Cloudnine hospital have been booked after the husband of a woman who died during delivery moved the Surajpur court alleging negligence. The hospital has said that the man was counselled about a “life-threatening condition” the patient had and stressed there was “no deficiency” on part of its team.
This is the second FIR in as many years to be lodged against the Sector 51 hospital for alleged negligence. Following a complaint by Aditya Ginodia, in which he alleged that the removal of his wife’s uterus resulted in blood loss and that the baby was pulled out through forceps even though a C-section could have been done, the Surajpur court on January 30 directed Sector 39 police to lodge an FIR against the four doctors and the hospital manager under IPC Section 304-A (death due to negligence), SHO Azad Tomar said.