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Human rights activists and societal workers wrote to Kumar Vishwajeet, Principal Secretary, Home Affairs, and Director-General of Police Harish Kumar Gupta connected January 1, seeking justness for P.S. Ajay Kumar and the Chatterjipuram Adivasis “falsely implicated” successful a transgression lawsuit in Anakapalli district.
According to a enactment issued to the media astir the letters connected Monday, the onshore rights contented of Chatterjipuram’s Gadaba Adivasis (PVTG tribe) is typical of respective cases, wherever the onshore being cultivated by adivasis is being threatened with alienation and concern by locally almighty and politically connected persons.
They said Mr. Ajay Kumar, an advocator and a onshore rights activist, has been implicated successful the transgression lawsuit related to the decease of a YSRCP leader, Vara Nookaraju, on October 20, 2025. Even though the FIR itself mentions that helium was not contiguous astatine the clip of the alleged incident, helium is being accused arsenic an instigator and conspirator, the activists said.
The activists said Mr. Ajay Kumar has been pursuing peaceful, ineligible struggles for galore Adivasi communities crossed the combined Visakhapatnam district, trying to support their ineligible rights implicit onshore that they person been cultivating for generations.
In the letters written to the DGP and the Principal Secretary (Home), they asked for an impartial truthful probe into the case. They added that Mr. Ajay Kumar and the Chatterjipuram adivasis should be immediately released connected bail, considering that they person cooperated with the probe and person been successful situation for respective weeks already.
The signatories of the missive see intelligence and quality rights activistic G. Haragopal; societal activistic Medha Patkar of National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM); erstwhile dean of societal sciences, the University of Hyderabad, D. Narasimha Reddy; activists S. Jeevan Kumar, V.S. Krishna and Vasanta Lakshmi of Human Rights Forum; Kanneganti Ravi, Vissa Kirankumar and S. Ashalatha of Rythu Swarajya Vedika; Rukmini Rao, C. Bhanuja and Usha Seethalakshmi of Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch; advocates Vasudha Nagaraj, Ravi Chaparala and P. Chennaiah, P. Shankar of Dalit Bahujan Front; Meera Sanghamitra of NAPM; B. Chakradhar of Samalochana; and wood rights activists B. Girija Devi and K. Bhanumathi.
