Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 22. — After the hunger strike, Maoist activists now demand information about all imprisoned fellow activists in various jails arrested on the charge of “waging war against the state”. Sources said today that one Maoist activist, Mr Animesh Chakraborty, has been on hunger- strike for the last three days and that the Maoists may soon appeal to the Court seeking the status of all Maoist prisoners, who are presently in jail, based on the Correctional Services Act 2000. The Maoist activist, Mr Animesh Chakraborty, has been on hunger strike continuously in phases, while he was in the Malda, Jalpaiguri and Siliguri jails in north Bengal for the same issue. On 5 March, he was transferred to Midnapore Central jail from the Malda jail in connection with a case for waging war against the state, recorded in Shalboni. Reportedly, out of 10 cases against, he has bail in four, all of which were initiated by north Bengal police. One case, however, which was initiated in Malda in connection with a murder in Harishchandrapur in the 1990s, will start in April. Animesh had threatened to intensify the hunger strike after the jail minister allegedly commented: “They would not be treated as political prisoners”. Animesh Chakraborty reportedly wrote a letter to the jail minister, Mr Biswanath Choudhury, from Malda in the first week of March pointing out that under the section 24(6) of the West Bengal Correctional Service Bill 1992, they had a right to know the status of the Maoist prisoners. In a letter, Chakraborty also claimed that he had studied the situation in various villages in Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia and Jalpaguri and found that croplands were in the clutches of capitalists. He also alleged that no implementation of 'Dharmagola' had taken place, as declared in the election manifesto in 1978 by the ruling state government. #
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