Jeethan marandi

జీతాన్ మారండి ప్రముక విప్లవ గాయకుడు జార్కండ్ లో ఆదివాసీలు నిర్వసితులవుతున్నారని గళం విప్పి జనాన్ని తట్టి లేపినందుకు ఆయనకు ఉరిశిక్ష వేసింది ఆ రాష్ట్ర ప్రభుత్వం
Jiten Marandi is a cultural activist from Jharkhand and also one of the secretaries of Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners. He was arrested in 2008 and accused by the police of being involved in the murder of 20 villagers, including the son of former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi, in Chilkari in 2007. He was sentenced to death in June 2011 by a lower court in Jharkhand. He has been an active participant in the movements against forcible land acquisitions in Jharkhand - and was actually arrested while he was on the way back from one such rally organized by the Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikash Andolan, almost an year after the killings. The police chargesheeted him under various clauses of the penal code, and it has also been alleged that false witnesses were brought forth during the trial, leading to the death-sentence. This case falls into the larger pattern of victimization of the cultural political activists as well as those adivasi voices who are resisting the various injustices being inflicted by the state. The following article, written in Hindi, is one of the first detailed expositions of the case.