Cases against GJMM leaders for forcing students to join rally

SNS, Siliguri, 29 August 2013: The Darjeeling police have started filing suo moto cases against the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) leaders for forcing the students aged 12 or less in the party rallies staged in support of the statehood demand in the Darjeeling Hills. 

“We have already filed 25 suo moto cases. 

These include cases of forcing participation of the students and staging unauthorised rallies. However, no one has been arrested so far in this connection," said the Darjeeling superintendent of police, Mr Kunal Agarwal in Siliguri after attending a meeting at North Bengal Development Department (NBDD) office today. 

Thousands of students from different schools have attended the rallies in different parts of the Hills after the movement for Gorkhaland was revived in the last week of July. Mr Agarwal said further that the non-bailable charges are being slapped for staging rallies on the National Highways. 

He said so far around 850 GJMM leaders and activists, including 12 Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) members, have been put behind bars in connection with several cases. 

Fifteen companies of Central forces are currently deployed in the Hills to maintain law and order, he added. The GJMM spokesperson, Mr Raju Pradhan, refused to say anything.

(Republished- Source & Courtesy: http://www.thestatesman.net/news/12596-cases-against-gjmm-leaders-for-forcing-students-to-join-rally.html)