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HRF condemns harassment of activist-lawyer of Kurnool
General secretary of Human Rights Forum (HRF) of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana VS Krishna and president S Jeevan Kumar strongly condemned the ongoing attempts by the police of Kurnool district to continuously harass UG Srinivasulu, an Adoni-based advocate and HRF secretary.
Visakhapatnam: General secretary of Human Rights Forum (HRF) of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana VS Krishna and president S Jeevan Kumar strongly condemned the ongoing attempts by the police of Kurnool district to continuously harass UG Srinivasulu, an Adoni-based advocate and HRF secretary.
In a statement here on Thursday, Krishna said over the past three years the police have filed several criminal charges against Srinivasulu and other activists of Adoni town, all of which are found to be false.Srinivasulu consistently opposed arbitrary and malafide use of the law by the police and critiqued their unlawful methods.
He has opposed the fabrication of charges on marginalised sections and has sought proper and effective implementation of the SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.When HRF along with several organisations sought enforcement of environmental regulations on industries emitting toxins into the air, ground,
water and causing immense injury to the people near Adoni, instead of invoking the law and penalizing those industries, false charges, including under the SC, ST (POA) Act, were levelled against HRF functionaries.When HRF questioned the indiscriminate opening of a huge number (460 in all) of rowdy sheets against people in Adoni,– and pointed out the harassment and humiliation this would entail -
instead of taking corrective measures, the police retaliation was to book a rowdy sheet on the lawyer himself.They even went to the extent of fabricating a case under section 153A IPC (creating enmity between communities) against him. This is perhaps the first time that a human rights activist has been charged under this section in the States of AP
and Telangana.“The HRF will continue to hold the government and its various instruments accountable to the law and democratic procedures,” Krishna said. He demanded that all charges against UG Srinivasulu be dropped and the cases foisted upon him be withdrawn.
