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Update Jan 6: Many tribal people who came to attend Jan Sunwai have been arrested and taken to unknown location - followed by arrests and subsequent release of journalists Priyanka & Satyen, AID volunteer Suresh, and TISS student Nishtha. See AID Press Note | Call officials in Chhattisgarh. Javed Iqbal for New Indian Express: Witness to ‘fake encounter’ detained by police Priyanka Borpujari writes from Dantewada: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Demands: Background: Sodi Sambo, aged 28 years, is a tribal woman from village Gompad, in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. She has 4 children. Security forces shot her in her leg on Oct 1, 2009. Her medical situation is precarious. Some 2-3 inches of the tibia bone is missing in her leg. From 20th October 2009, Sodi Sambo was admitted in St Stephen's Hospital,Delhi. After undergoing preliminary test, she was operated as an emergency case late at night on that day and rods were nserted in her leg after removing parts of the bone that were crushed in the gun-shot injury. The doctors at St Stephen's Hospital had instructed Sodi Sambo to return to St. Stephen's Hospital after about around of the end of the year 2009 in order to continue her treatment, which would require more surgical interventions. On the night of 2nd January 2010, Sambo was put on a bus to Raipur. After police surrounded the bus thrice, those accompanying her brought her back. The next morning when Himanshu Kumar, a noted Gandhian from Dantewada escorted Sambo, a vehicle with policemen followed their vehicle. On reaching Kanker town they stopped for food around noon. Police accosted them and brought them to Kanker police station. They were detained there till for the rest of the day till 06:30 pm. When organisations from across the country started making protest calls to the state government, police responded that Himanshu Kumar was free to leave, but that the Dantewada police needed Sambo for recording her statement. A need that the police discovered only when Sambo embarked on her journey to the hospital after staying a month in Dantewada town! Sodi Sambo was taken by the Police after 07:00 pm on Jan 3, 2010 in the guise of recording her statement, thus jeopardising her health and recovery. Later she was reportedly admitted in a local hospital by the police that did not let anybody visit her. Practically she was put under hospital arrest without being letting her go to Delhi. DGP Viswaranjan of Chattisgarh: 0771- 4240077 (office phone),
094252 07025 prodgpcg@gmail.com Chief Secretary Joy Ommen at 098266 22633, office phone: 0771-2221207, fax: 0771-2221206, Residence phone: 0771-2521007, email: joyoommen@nic.in Home secretary RP Jain (home ph: 0771-2883327) Sh. B.K.S Ray, Additional Chief Secretary (Home, Civil Aviation & Transport Commissioner) bksray@nic.in, Sh.Vivek Dhand, Additional Chief Secraty (Secretary to CM), E-mail : vivekdhand@nic.in 0771-2221308 (Off.), 0771-2242466 (Res.) Sh. M.K. Raut, Secretary (Tribal, S.C.& S.T. Development) E-mail : mkraut@nic.in, 0771-2234110 (Off.), 0771-2331067 (Res.) Governor, H.E. Shri E.S.L. Narsimhan, E-mail: governor.cg@nic.in, Phone Nos. + 91 - 771 - 2331101, + 91 - 771 - 2331106, + 91 - 771 - 233110411. Sh.B.L.Thakur, Coordinator, Rehabilitation, Development & Monitoring 0522, +91-771- 233 1466 Please also copy emails to: presidentofindia@rb.nic.in, manmohan@sansad.nic.in, hm@nic.in, "Smt. Sonia Gandhi" <soniagandhi@sansad.nic.in>, covdnhrc@hub.nic.in, NHRC <ionhrc@nic.in>, nhrc <nhrc@ren.nic.in>, "Chief Secretary Sh. Joy Ommen" <joyoommen@nic.in>
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Witness to Operation Green Hunt - the name for a massive attack by state security forces, Salwa Judum and Special Police Officers (SPOs) in the tribal villages of Chhattisgarh - Sodi Sambo was herself attacked, but survived. On Oct 18, 2009 she filed this report with the police:| < Prev | Next > |
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