Fight against sand mafia main reason behind Seema Azad arrest

Himanshu Kumar is narrating the story of Seema Azad who is langueshing in Uttar Pradesh jail from last one year on charges of being a Maoist. Himanshu says Seema faught a successful legal case against sand mafia and got an order that no machine should be used in sand extraction and all the work should be got done by women self help groups. This victory was the main reason behind arrest of Seema Azad, he says

Posted on: Mar 04, 2011. Tags: Himanshu Kumar

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