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Chhattisgarh police treating me like criminal: Tribal teacher
Wednesday October 12, 2011 02:28:11 PM,
IANS
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Raipur: Soni Sori, the
tribal teacher who was held in Delhi last week on charges of being
a Maoist conduit and is hospitalised here with head and back
injuries, Wednesday said Chhattisgarh Police were treating her
like a criminal.
"They (police) are treating me like a hardcore criminal. They had
put a chain on my legs... I oppose such moves by police," Sori
told some mediamen at a government hospital here where the police
brought her to recover from the injuries.
Sori was held in Delhi and brought to Chhattisgarh on transit
remand.
"Why are they treating me like a criminal? What I did, why they
put 'janjir' (chain) on my legs," Sori was heard saying in footage
aired by local TV channels.
Police denied putting a chain around her legs or harassing her.
They shifted Sori to Raipur-based Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Government
Medical College and Hospital Tuesday night from Jagdalpur,
headquarters of the Bastar region, where doctors suggested
advanced treatment for her injuries on the head and lower back.
Sori, who is accused of receiving money on behalf of Maoists from
the Essar Group as "protection money", sustained injuries in
Dantewada Monday while in police custody.
Human right activists had termed her injury a case of "custodial
violence" and sought an independent probe to expose police
atrocities while Chhattisgarh Police have denied the accusations
and said Sori slipped and fell in the bathroom while in police
custody.
Last week Sori had moved Delhi High Court requesting that the
Chhattisgarh Police not be allowed to take her back to the state
as she faces a threat to her life.
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