PUCL Condemns the Arrest of PUCL Executive Member Kailash Meena
PUCL condemns the arrest of PUCL executive member Kailash Meena, the leading anti mining and anti displacement activist from Neem Ka Thana, Sikar District. He was arrested on 20th Dec 2011 by the Police of Patan Police Station at around 1 pm. He was later produced before a magistrate and sent into judicial custody.
He has been booked under four false cases while the Dabla movement against stone crushers was on. Three cases have just been made out in Patan Thana and one in Neem Ka Thana. Patan Thana FIRs are as follows. FIR number 108 dated 4/5/2011 u/s 147/332/353/336.This FIR was filed when Kailash Meena was not even present in Dabla village. FIR number 250 dated 24/04/2011 u/s 452/323 and 3-1-10 of the SC and ST Act, was also made out falsely by the mining lobby people led by MLA Ramesh Khandelwal when the movement was at its peak and similarly, FIR No 124, dated 14/06/2011 u/s 452, 323, 143 of the IPC, is totally false. Because of the success of the movement stone crushing and mining had stopped in Dabla, Sikar.
PUCL will go to NHRC and also carry out a national campaign for the release of Kailash Meena.
Kavita Srivastava, General Secretary, PUCL Rajasthan