Mr Kirity Roy, Secretary of Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) is
arrested by the
Anti Terrorist Cell of Kolkata Police this morning

Mr Roy was arrested from his residence at
Serampore, Hooghly in Kolkata at around 9 AM today in connection with
Taltala Police Station case no. 134/2008 dated 9 June 2008 under Section 170
(Personating a public officer), Section 179 (refusing to answer
public servant authorized to question), Section 229 (Personation of a
juror or assessor) and Section 120B (Criminal Conspiracy) of the Indian
Penal Code against Mr. Kirity Roy and others of MASUM. This case was
registered for organizing a People’s Tribunal on Torture on 9-10 June
2008 at Kolkata.

Mr Kirity Roy was only one of the organizers of
the People’s Tribunal on Torture. The panelists included Ms. Pamela
Philipose, Executive Director, Women Feature Service, Mr. Ashok
Chakravarti, former Senior Director, NHRC, Justice Malay Sengupta, Ex-
Chief Justice Sikkim High Court, Dr. Mohini Giri, former Chairperson,
National Commission for Women, Mr. Ashutosh Mukherjee, ex-District &
Sessions Judge, Dr. Tapas Bhattacharjya, Dr. Satyajit Ash, M.D.,
Psychiatrist, MON Foundation, Dr. Sreemantee Chaudhuri, Psychiatrist,
Dr. A. K. Gupta, Head of Forensic Medicine, Calcutta Medical College,
among others.

Mr Roy challenged the validity of FIR No. 134/2008
before the Calcutta High Court (Kirity Roy versus State of West Bengal
& others vide WP No. 25022(W) of 2008) but on 26 August 2009 Justice Sanjib
Banerjee of the Calcutta High Court dismissed the writ petition
on the ground that police investigation is necessary to find out whether the
petitioner organized a parallel judiciary. Mr Roy filed an appeal
(MAT 1219/2009) along with a Stay Application (C.A.N. 10511/2009) in the
Division Bench of Chief Justice Mohit Ranjan Shah and Justice Pinaki
Chandra Ghosh. The Division Bench of Calcutta High Court is scheduled to
hear the case tomorrow i.e. 8 April 2010.