Teltumbde demands probe into Bhima Koregaon violence
Tuesday - September 11, 2018 12:58 am ,
Category : INDIA
Panaji Sep 11 (IANS) The Bhima Koregaon violence should be probed by a judicial commission and action should be taken against those responsible for it civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde said on Monday.
Speaking at a function organised by the Dakshinayan Abhiyan on "Decimating Dissent: The Truth Behind Bhima Koregaon" in South Goa s Margao town Teltumbde said the Maharashtra police were targetting him for attending a conference in Paris which they claimed was funded by Maoists.
"There should be a probe by a judicial commission into this episode and whosoever did it should be taken to task. In a democratic state taking a posture and acting against citizens is unpardonable " he said.
Teltumbde was one of the several Dalit thinkers whose homes were raided on August 28 by Pune police in connection with Bhima-Koregaon violence of January 1.
He said he had filed a defamation case against the Pune police.
"They raided my residence because I had attended a convention in Paris which was organised by the Department of Amercian Studies in Paris in April this year. It was not funded by Maoists nor it had any Naxal link " he said.
"The search by the police was absolute fabrication and utterly nonsense " he said.
Pune police raided Teltumbde s official residence on the Goa Institute of Management campus in Sanquelim village 30 km from Panaji.
--IANS maya/qd
Speaking at a function organised by the Dakshinayan Abhiyan on "Decimating Dissent: The Truth Behind Bhima Koregaon" in South Goa s Margao town Teltumbde said the Maharashtra police were targetting him for attending a conference in Paris which they claimed was funded by Maoists.
"There should be a probe by a judicial commission into this episode and whosoever did it should be taken to task. In a democratic state taking a posture and acting against citizens is unpardonable " he said.
Teltumbde was one of the several Dalit thinkers whose homes were raided on August 28 by Pune police in connection with Bhima-Koregaon violence of January 1.
He said he had filed a defamation case against the Pune police.
"They raided my residence because I had attended a convention in Paris which was organised by the Department of Amercian Studies in Paris in April this year. It was not funded by Maoists nor it had any Naxal link " he said.
"The search by the police was absolute fabrication and utterly nonsense " he said.
Pune police raided Teltumbde s official residence on the Goa Institute of Management campus in Sanquelim village 30 km from Panaji.
--IANS maya/qd
