Activists slam Hyderabad police chief for linking rights groups to Maoists

Hyderabad | Sunday | 13th October, 2019

Summary:

By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: A day after Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar named numerous human rights organisations as banned frontal organisations of the CPI Maoist party, the remarks have not gone down well within the human rights activists. It appears that the government had banned only six frontal organisations of the Maoist party. Following Anjani Kumar’s remarks, human rights activists found fault with the police commissioner. Virasam member Kasi alleged that the police commissioner deliberately made such remarks to damage the reputation of people’s organisations working for protection of human rights and freedom of expression. Civil Liberties Committee leader Laxman, practicing advocate Chikkudu Prabahakar, and other social organisation members, have condemned the police commissioner’s statement branding social organisations as frontal organisations of the Maoist party..