Under Siege In Bastar
Today, Amnesty India has asked for an immediate release of the seven activists who were on a fact-finding team looking into encounter killings in Bastar. This after a Chhattisgarh court sent them to jail for allegedly helping Maoists in the region. Police allege that Rs 1 lakh in old notes have been recovered from the activists. The state government has claimed that note ban has crippled the Maoists in the Chhattisgarh. Tonight on Agenda, in conversation with Author and journalist Amitava Kumar who has just returned from a trip in the Maoist belt; Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar charged with a tribal's murder in Chhattisgarh and former DGP of Uttar Pradesh, Vikram Singh.
