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`Dalits, tribals launguishing in jails'

Staff Reporter

BERHAMPUR: Ninety-two innocent dalits and tribals are languishing in Orissa jails being falsely termed as naxal supporters, alleged the State unit of the CPI-Maoist party.

In press note signed by Sunil, secretary of the Orissa unit, the Maoists alleged that these prisoners were being treated inhumanly in the jails.

According to them 29 such prisoners were lodged at Berhampur circle jail, 26 at Sambalpur jail, 23 at Malkangiri jail, three at Paralakhemundi jail, two at R. Udaygiri sub-jail, three at Rayagada jail, and six at Rourkela jail. According to them, a cancer patient named Natha Pradhan from Jajpur area arrested in the name of his alleged naxal connections was also fighting for his life inside the jail.

The Maoists said the atrocities on dalits and tribals living in remote areas of the State had increased during the tenure of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Naveen Patnaik Government has joined hands with the fundamentalist BJP to be in power but was hand in hand with the Congress to continue atrocities.

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