Conspiracy to Tag Soni Suri as Mentally Unstable

Soni Suri, the adivasi cultural activist and teacher from Chattisgarh, who was arrested under suspicious grounds [by slapping the easiest charge to detain someone and keep them incommunicado at their own free will - that of being a "Naxalite"
or "Maoist" - the same thing they did to Binayak Sen) and then brutally raped and tortured by police officers while in custody, the same officer Ankit Garg going on to receive a presidential award for his "exemplary performance" [of using rape as a tool to intimidate and repress the powerless!] – is once again in the news. This time, there is an attempt to paint her as mentally unstable, which would reduce the importance of her serious allegations of the inhuman torture that she had to endure, which included forceful insertion of stones and other alien objects into her vagina.

But women’s groups, activists and other progressives can clearly see through this mischievous attempt to dilute the value of Soni Suri’s complaint against the pawns of the repressive state machinery. It has been learnt attempts were made to molest once more in recent times, while in custody. So naturally her life is constantly threatened and despite there being no proof of her involvement with any “anti people” activity, she has been declared terrorist – which is always how things work for the ordinary people of the country – guilty till proven innocent!

Following is an excerpt from the following article:

Women’s rights groups condemn ‘move’ to declare Soni Sori mentally unsound

In the conversation with the psychiatrist in the presence of the Superintendent, Ms. Soni was asked questions related to “anger” and advised not to complain all the time. Otherwise there was a good chance that she would be sent to Agra, according to a women’s rights activist.

“This is a devious attempt to declare her mentally unsound and create doubts about the veracity of her complaints of sexual torture in police custody and subsequent harassment in jail,” said the rights groups. Strongly condemning this act of the government, which comes on the back of a stray comment by Shamina Shafiq, member of the National Commission for Women (NCW), made to the press right after meeting Ms. Sori at the Raipur Central Jail on December 4 last year, the rights groups are demanding that the NCW make its report public.