Sharmila taken to Delhi for hearing
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, May 10: Following a summon order issued by a Delhi Court, Irom Chanu Sharmila has been taken to Delhi by flight today by personnel of the State jail.

Police sources said that a team of Delhi police came to Manipur with the summon order issued by the Magistrate of a Delhi Court and handed over the same to the State jail authority.

Sharmila's elder brother Singhajit, who is currently in Delhi informed The Sangai Express that she arrived at Delhi at 1.30 pm and is presently kept at Manipur Bhawan.

rom Chanu Sharmila being escorted to the Tulihal airport for the flight to Delhi

"I have been told that she would be produced before the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi tomorrow at 10.30 am,� Singhajit said and added that her case may be related to an FIR lodged with Delhi police after she shifted there to continue her fast.

Sharmila shifted her protest site to Delhi on October 4 last year and returned to Imphal on March 4 this year.

Singhajit informed that he has already contacted a lawyer to seek bail so that Sharmila may return to Manipur.

Significantly, the new development has come barely days after Sharmila was chosen for the prestigious Gwangju prize for human rights.

Another Indian human rights activist has also been chosen for the said award.

Executive Director of Human Rights Alert Babloo Loitongbam said that the police are unduly harassing her and added that she is not in good health.

Meanwhile Singhajit informed The Sangai Express that he would go to South Korea to receive the prize on behalf of his sister.

The prize will be distributed during a function to be held from May 15 to 18, he said and added that he is presently trying to get the visa and other necessary documents to proceed to South Korea.

The prize has a cash component of 25,000 US dollars, which works out to about Rs 11 lakhs, 25 thousand.