[Reader-list] reslotion on murder of lalit mehta and other activists

[Asit asitreds]

*RESOLUTION*



This convention against draconian laws organised by Asha Parivar, INSAF,
NCDHR, FDI, SAHR, APDP (JK) forward Youth Front, Civil Liberties Monitoring
Committee Hyderabad and Reach out condemns the brutal murder of activists
Lalit Mehta and Kameswar Yadav of Jharkhand and T. Babu of NAPM Karnataka.





Lalit Mehta and Kameswar Yadav were murdered by Contractors for exposing the
corruption and carrying out social audit of National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (NREGA).



It should be noted that NREGA is the much flaunted flagship pro-rural poor
programme of the U.P.A. Government which came to power campaigning against
the N.D.A. Regimes handling agrarian distress and high rural unemployment
which forced distress migration to urban slums.



Lalit Mehta and Kameswar Yadav's murder is a clear indication of class
violence prevailing in Rural India. These acts of brutal murder and other
forms of bestiality perpetrated on women, dalits and other marginal and
oppressed sections is a clear manifestation of a decaying but stubborn
feudal order in the country side, who even after six decades of Independence
refuses to give up their extra constitutional privileges including the
shameless right to pilferage and embezzlement of funds meant for the rural
poor with active connivance of an equally feudal and corrupt beaurocracy.



It should be noted that after an ardous struggle by Daman evam bhrastachar
sangharsh samiti Jharkhand, The Jharkhand Govt. took a decision to handover
the case of Lalit Mehta to CBI.



It is unfortunate that even a month after the order the CBI is yet to
initiate the probe into Lalit Mehta's murder. We demand that the Central and
Jharkhand Govt. to expedite the CBI enquiry. We also demand that the
Jharkhand police stop pressurising Lalit Mehta's wife Ashrita and stop
creating hurdles for CBI enquiry.





Garhwal Bhawan

New Delhi

Date : 27/7/2008