[Assam] Sharmila in custody

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

        Sharmila in custody
    OUR CORRESPONDENT       Imphal, March 8: Three days after she returned here from Delhi, Irom Sharmila is back in jail with a court remanding her in judicial custody yesterday. 
  She is now in Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, being nose-fed. 
  Sharmila, the most persistent crusader against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, has been on a hungerstrike for the past six years demanding repeal of the “draconian” law. 
  After being released from jail in October last year, Sharmila shifted her campaign to the national capital on October 4 to draw the attention of those in power in Delhi as well as the international community, to alleged rights abuse in the state. 
  On returning to Imphal on March 4, police, however, picked her up when she went to Kangla fort to pray at the Kangle temple and admitted her to the state-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital. 
  She was produced in a deputy magistrate’s court here, which sent her to judicial custody for 15 days. 

 
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