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Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 27 2009:
The fast unto death crusader for the repeal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 and who has been arrested on charge of attempting to commit suicide, Irom Chanu Sharmila, will be released on March 7 after discharging her case in the Court.
Sharmila has been granted judicial remand till March 7 by first class Judicial Magistrate of Imphal East, M Premila today in a verdict.
The judgment of the magistrate said that the case registered against Sharmila by the police will be cleared on March 7 and she will be released after a hearing the same day.
The fast-unto-death campaigner against AFSPA, Sharmila has been detained by the Porompat Police under IPC section 309.The details on why Sharmila has taken up the fast unto death agitation have to be produced within 365 days from the date of her arrest.
The deadline expires on March 7. Sharmila has been on strike since 2000 for the removal of AFSPA.
Though the police arrested her, the Court has provided bail for her.
However, on her refusal released on bail, she has been put under judicial custody remand.
Expressing concern over the silence maintained by the state government even as Omar Abdullah, the CM of Jammu and Kashmir, where the law and order situation is worse than here, announces for the repeal of AFSPA in J&K, Sharmila, while talking to reporters today also question why the government is maintaining its silence still.
�It is very displeasing to note that the government remains silent by just saying that the injustices around us are natural phenomena,� Sharmila said while adding that something must be done by the youths so as to bring the state in the right track.