SLIC welcomes the Supreme Court decision to grant permanent bail to Soni Sori and Linga Kododopi
SLIC along-with other Human Rights activists has been fighting long and hard to get justice for adivasi school teacher and Mr Linga. They can now visit Chhattisgarh.
In a major relief to Ms. Sori, the Supreme Court on Thursday provided her permanent bail, saying she could visit her hometown Dantewada. Sori was arrested in October 2011 on charges of helping the Maoists get 'protection money' from steel giant Essar.
"Giving electric shocks, stripping me naked, shoving stones inside me - is this going to solve the Naxal problem," she had once asked in a letter to the Supreme Court. Human rights activists insisted that Sori was jailed for questioning violations of law by the police and security forces in the state.
"Chhattisgarh has an unwritten set of rules about how an adivasi should behave. You don't organise, you don't agitate, you don't protest against human rights violations, you don't protest against the state, and you certainly don't protest against industrial houses that are in Bastar to usher in the industrial revolution," says, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist.