Fw: Immediately Produce Ranajit Dasgupta @ Subhas @Bhai, a resident of Ushumpur, North 24-Parganas, West Bengal before court!
Ranjana
Subject: Immediately Produce Ranajit Dasgupta @ Subhas @Bhai, a resident of Ushumpur, North 24-Parganas, West Bengal before court!
COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
185/3, Fourth Floor, Zakir Nagar, New Delhi—25
06.12.2010
Immediately Produce Ranajit Dasgupta @ Subhas @Bhai, a resident of Ushumpur, North 24-Parganas, West Bengal before court!
It is increasingly becoming a pattern on the side of the police and other investigating agencies to keep political dissidents under illegal custody for several days and show a fudged date of arrest as and when they are produced before the court. These days of illegal custody are conveniently used to act with impunity by the ‘law enforcers’ flouting all norms and procedures that to some extent can protect the detained from brutal, inhuman torture of all kinds. Thus illegal confinement is increasingly become a tool in the hands of the state to indulge in torture and in many a case also endanger the life of the detained as is evident in cases of political dissidents including the Maoists from the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The West Bengal police are no exception when it comes to acting with impunity. The most recent case is the abduction of political dissidents such as the Maoists, keeping them under detention illegally without producing them in court within 24 hours of arrest by trampling underfoot all constitutional norms. The cases in mention are those of the Maoist leaders Sudip Chongdar @ Kanchan, reported to be the West Bengal State Committee Secretary of the CPI(Maoist), Barun Sur @ Bidyut, secretary of Bhagirathi Teesta Regional Committee, Anil Ghosh @ Ajoyda and Kalpana Maity @ Anu--all state committee members and Bimal Mallick @ Sankar--reported to be a courier. It is reported in sections of the media that they were picked up from some parts of greater Kolkata on 30 November (Tuesday), kept under illegal detention for 3 days and produced only on 4th December.
While these political activists were produced on the 4th, there is another activist who, though, according to reliable information, arrested also on 30th, was not produced in the court at all. He is Ranajit Dasgupta @ Subhas @ Bhai, a resident of Ushumpur, North 24-Parganas. There is reason to suspect that he has been subjected to barbaric torture in the police lock-up and that his life is at stake.
The CRPP urges all democratic people to raise their voice against the illegal detention of Ranajit Dasgupta and make demand to the WB government to immediately produce Ranajit Dasgupta in the court of law.
Yours sincerely,
Gurusharan Singh
President
Amit Bhattacharyya
Secretary General
SAR Geelani
Working President
Rona Wilson
Secretary Public Relations