Women with babies sent to jail on dacoity charge
<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Women%20with%20babies%20sent%20to%20jail%20on%20dacoity%20charge&artid=kijpzbg/GZs=&SectionID=mvKkT3vj5ZA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=nUFeEOBkuKw=&SEO=> Express News Service<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/searchresult.aspx?AliasName=qK1tLBLX%7CpILczNiCZRSYEHJtp5ChTm2> First Published : 28 Feb 2010 05:17:00 AM IST Last Updated : 28 Feb 2010 08:08:58 AM IST BHWANIPATNA: Five women, including two lactating mothers with babies, of Chatrapur village adjacent to Lanjigarh here, were remanded in judicial custody on Thursday by the SDJM, Bhawanipatna. They were forwarded to court by Lanjigarh police on the charge of committing dacoity under Section 395 of IPC. Alleging violation of human rights, the villagers brought the matter to the notice of the members of National and State Human Rights Commissions who were here organising a workshop to create awareness on human rights. According to the FIR lodged by Furnace Fabrication India Ltd, on February 22 a group of people armed with axe, shovels and iron rods entered the premises of the construction site and pelted stones at labourers and engineers working there forcing them to abandon the workplace. The FIR said the mob, including the women, stole steel materials like fabricated steel plates, angles, channels, anchors, structural steel and scrap materials weighing about 65 MT. Police report said the accused persons belonged to Chatrapur village. In this connection, police arrested five women from Chatrapur village on Thursday and forwarded them to court. They were remanded in judicial custody after the SDJM, Bhawanipatna, rejected their bail pleas. Meanwhile, the accused women have filed an appeal against the order. The incident has caused a public outcry in Chatrapur and Lanjigarh area and villagers have demanded a highlevel probe into the incident. Daitary Pradhan, advocate for the accused women, said the women had been framed and it is a clear case of violation of human rights. It is humanly impossible for these women to steal such a huge quantity of steel materials as alleged in the FIR, he said. http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Women%20with%20babies%20sent%20to%20jail%20on%20dacoity%20charge&artid=kijpzbg/GZs=&SectionID=mvKkT3vj5ZA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=nUFeEOBkuKw=&SEO= -- "After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can’t respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn’t respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.” -- Maria Julia Hernandez www.otherindia.org www.binayaksen.net www.phm-india.org www.phmovement.org www.ifhhro.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
