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Arun Ferreira On His Arrest & Police Torture

Arun Ferreira, a young intellectual from Mumbai, was arrested in May 2007 and accused of being part of an illegal Maoist plot to blow up Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur, sacred to millions of dalit Buddhists. A total of 10 criminal cases were foisted on him and Ferreira spent more than 4 ½ years of his life fighting to prove he was innocent. He was tortured in custody by the police and made to undergo narco-analysis not once but two times. The courts however did not believe the police story and he was acquitted from all the 10 cases. Ferreira walked out from Nagpur Central Jail on 27 September 2011 expecting to be a free man. But not quite. He was abducted and rearrested from the gates of the jail, and another 2 cases were slapped on him. After another 3-month battle and following an outcry against the state's highhandedness, Ferreira finally was set free on 4 January 2012. Of the 2 cases pressed against him, he was acquitted in one while bail was granted in the other. Like Arun Ferreira, there are thousands of political prisoners languishing in Indian jails today. Ferreira's gritty battle against heavy odds has given them hope that they too will see freedom one day. Meanwhile Ferreira's fight for justice continues. He has decided to make those who wasted 5 years of his precious, young life pay for it. He has filed a writ petition before the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court challenging his re-arrest, the slapping of false cases against him and wrongful confinement, and has sought heavy monetary compensation from the state and punishment for the malicious police officers. This is recording from a press conference held on the 11th of Jan, 2012 in Press Club Mumbai.