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Concern over branding of innocent as naxalites

BHUBANESWAR: Social activists, journalists and writers have raised concern that police are indiscriminately picking up people and branding them as naxalites. They assembled here on Sunday to lodge their protest against a statement made by Jagtsinghpur district superintendent of police who said at a press conference that ‘Nishan’, a literary magazine, was a publication of outlawed CPI (Maoist).

The protest came close on the heels of recent arrest of some activists By the State police who said that they belonged to left wing extremist groups.

“What was baffling was that police presented them as naxalite without conducting any investigation.

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