leaders of the Samruddha Odisha (SO) party led by its president Jatish Mohanty on Wednesday moved the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) in connection with the forcible arrest of Sushree Das, a Zilla Parishad member, by the police in an undemocratic way. A five-member team would visit Talcher on Friday to take stock of the health condition of Das, said party general secretary Prabir Mohanty.
According to general secretary Mohanty, police forcibly arrested the ZP member on late Tuesday night and sent her to jail when she was staging dharna in front of the State Assembly protesting NSl Company's monopoly attitude at Tentulei in Talcher area. At 2.30 am on Tuesday, a few plain-clothed police, who had come in two private cars, took her from the dharna place by convincing her in the name of the discussion.
The police took her to Talcher immediately and sent her to jail by lodging false cases under various Sections of the IPC against her, he added.
SO senior vice president Gora Chand Barik warned that the officials, who forcibly took Das to Talcher, would be responsible if the latter's health condition deteriorated.
Notably, Das was arrested when she had sat in fast in front the Chief Minister's residence protesting the NSl Company for not providing compensation to the displaced, illegal land acquisitions and forcible construction of boundary wall on the agricultural field. When she could not get opportunity to sit on a dharna in front of the Naveen Niwas, she continued her dharna at the lower PMG.