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Saturday, January 25, 2014

SKM accuses West SP of biased policing

GANGTOK, 24 Jan: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha has accused the West District Superintendent of Police of political bias in discharging his duties.
An SKM press release issued today alleges that first the SP ensured that no action was taken on an FIR filed by SKM’s Sanchabir Subba at Kaluk thana, and then followed it up by taking an SKM leader Topzang Bhutia in custody over a trivial issue.
The release contends that the FIR in Kaluk Thana was against SDF’s Avinash Yakha and accused him of attacking SKM party workers in Bermiok on 21 January. When no follow-up action was initiated, SKM took out a protest rally when Mr. Bhutia was stopped on charges of driving an overloaded vehicle.
The release contends that instead of just challaning Mr. Bhutia for the alleged traffic violation, he was dragged to the lock-up and assaulted. Agitated SKM supporters gheraoed the thana and it was only when the party’s Gyalshing constituency in-charge arrived that tempers were eased. The release adds that an FIR has been lodged with SDM against the SP and rues that no action has been taken yet on their complaint.
The party goes on to level a series of allegations against its former colleague, Avinash Yakha, who is now in the SDF and was victim of an assault on 22 January. SKM contends that Mr. Yakha was the instigator of the violence and maintains that its youth leader Roshan Pradhan has been falsely implicated in the incident.
In this connection, the SKM release goes on to question the police raid on Orange Village Resort yesterday which led to the arrest of two Nepal nationals employed there without valid documents along with Mr. Pradhan’s father, Chin Kazi Shrestha. Accepting that employing foreign nationals without valid documents would attract police action, the release questions why this is being implemented exclusively on opposition sympathizers and was never invoked in the past.

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