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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”.