{"id":4218,"date":"2010-02-10T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T10:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2010-02-10T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T10:27:38","slug":"seema-azad-branded-maoist-for-exposing-police-says-pucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/seema-azad-branded-maoist-for-exposing-police-says-pucl","title":{"rendered":"Seema Azad branded Maoist for exposing police, says PUCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"TixyyLink\">\n<p>Members of the People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) alleged Tuesday their organising secretary Seema Azad has been falsely branded as a Maoist because of \u201cher campaigns exposing the police misdeeds, particularly their connivance with illegal miners\u201d.<br \/>\nAzad, 35, was arrested Saturday from Allahabad along with her husband Vishwavijay Azad alias Kamalji on charges of having links with Maoists.<\/p>\n<p>The PUCL has already announced it would hold a protest Feb 13 in Lucknow in suppot of Azad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a number of occasions, she (Seema Azad) had taken up the cudgels on behalf of poor labourers and exposed the nexus between the police and the illegal contractors, who used to deploy labourers for unauthorised mining of stone or sand in various regions of Uttar Pradesh, particularly the Sonbhadra district,\u201d PUCL vice-president Ramkumar told reporters here Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing an editor of a magazine named Dastak, which focused on social issues and development, Seema had a number of times written articles on corrupt practices of police and contractors. We, therefore, believe Seema has been targeted primarily owing to her such campaigns,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to PUCL members, Azad often wrote in Dastak against several government policies that she thought were against the poor and downtrodden.<\/p>\n<p>While the police claimed \u201cprohibited literature on Maoists\u201d was recovered from Azad\u2019s possession, PUCL members said police should elaborate what was the prohibited literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust saying it was prohibited literature holds no significance\u2026We are sure the literature was not anti-national\u2026Actually, we believe what the police term \u2018prohibited\u2019 comprises reference material that Seema was to use in her articles for magazines,\u201d another PUCL vice-president, S.R Darapuri, a former IPS officer, told IANS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossessing Maoist literature is no crime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Terming Azad\u2019s arrest as a violation to human rights, the PUCL demanded an early release of its organising secretary, who has been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) alleged Tuesday their organising secretary Seema Azad has been falsely branded as a Maoist because of \u201cher campaigns exposing the police misdeeds, particularly their connivance with illegal miners\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seema Azad branded Maoist for exposing police, says PUCL  - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Members of the People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) alleged Tuesday their organising secretary Seema Azad has been falsely branded as a Maoist because of \u201cher campaigns exposing the police misdeeds, particularly their connivance with illegal miners\u201d. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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