Forum launched to fight discrimination against NE people

Itanagar: North East Justice Forum has been formed to fight discrimi-nation against people from the region in any part of the country. The Forum was formed in Delhi yesterday with former Lok Sabha member Takam Sanjoy heading it.
Nido Pavitra, the father of Nido Tania, a victim of racial discrimination who died last year after an attack on him at Lajpat Nagar market in the national capital is one of the eight members of its interim committee, Sanjoy said in statement here on Thursday.
The Forum in its first meeting took serious excep-tion to CBI’s recommen-dation on the basis of which the trail court had dropped charges under the ST/SC Act from the FIR thereby weakening Nido Tania case, the statement said
. Delhi High Court had on January 9 sought CBI response on a plea filed by Pavitra in this regard. Justice Manmohan Singh had issu-ed notice to four accused – Farman, Pawan, Sunder Singh and S. Uppal seeking their reply on Pavitra’s plea against the trial court’s decision to drop charges under the SC/ST Act against the culprits.(PTI)