Raipur, January 06, 2012
About
60 members of Youth Congress (YC) were detained and released on Friday while
they were advancing to gherao Forest Minister Vikram Usendi with their demand to
lift wrongly registered non-bailable case against their fellow members from
Kawardha districts recently. The state YC president Uttam Vasudev termed the
police action as deliberate and intended to harass Congress and its frontal
organisations.
“The Forest department
had recently victimised eight baiga families pertaining to tiger killing incident
merely on suspicion. However, when the police disclosed that the actual
culprits were from Forest department, the Kawardha YC members reached the local
Forest officer and sought suspension of guilty staffers and justice to the innocent
baiga families. But the police held our members on the spot and filed
non-bailable case against them,” Vasudev elaborated.
“The police did not
even spare us and took repressive action against us when we tried to gherao Forest
Minister,” said Vasudev.
The YC members who
accompanied Vasudev were – state vice president Deepak Mishra, Raipur Lok Sabha
president Vinod Tiwari, state general secretaries – Pappu Baghel, Asif Memon, Sandeep Sahu, Abhishek Modi along with
Makhan Tamrakar, Anwar Khan, Indrajeet Singh, Sushil Agrawal, etc.
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