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For running parallel judiciary,rights activist held
The Special Task Force of the Kolkata police on Wednesday arrested the president of a Howrah-based human rights organisation for allegedly running a parallel judiciary in Kolkata in June 2008.
Written by Express News Service
Kolkata | April 8, 2010 02:28 AM IST
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The Special Task Force of the Kolkata police on Wednesday arrested the president of a Howrah-based human rights organisation for allegedly running a parallel judiciary in Kolkata in June 2008. Kiriti Roy,president of MASUM,was arrested from his Serampore residence in Hooghly,but was later released on an interim bail by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
On the chargesheet filed by the Kolkata police against Roy and seven others,Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R R Chakraborty said the police have brought the charges under Sections 467,468,471 and 420 of the IPC without the permission of the court. The detention of Roy is not required when police have filed a chargesheet against the accused,said the judge,directing Roy to appear in the 7th Metropolitan Magistrate Court on April 9.
On behalf of MASUM,Roy had allegedly convened the Peoples Tribunal on Torture programme at Taltala in Kolkata on June 9,2008. The organisation had served a notice to Kolkata police Commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty and other officers to appear before the peoples tribunal that was reportedly headed by a former judge of the Calcutta High Court. The tribunal had recorded the statements of various persons.
On June 9,2008,the Taltala police station registered a case under Sections 120B,170 and 229 of the IPC accusing Roy as well as MASUM of illegally organising a parallel judiciary. Roy was,however,not arrested.
In 2009,Roy filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court challenging the case registered against him with the Taltala police station. The case will come up for hearing in the High Court on Friday.
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