Irom re-arrested for 'suicide bid'

Irom re-arrested for 'suicide bid'

                                                                                      

TWO days after she was released on court orders, civil rights activist Irom Charm Sharmila was on Friday rearrested by the police on fresh charges of attempt to commit suicide and remanded to judicial custody by the court.

"We re-arrested her this morning and have obtained 15 days' judicial custody order from a magistrate of the CJM court on charges of attempt to commit suicide (Section 309 of IPC)." Manipur ADO (Intelligence) Santosh Macherla told PTI.

42-year-old Sharmila was on Friday morning forcibly taken away to the Jawahar Lai Nehru Hospital from a makeshift shelter near it where she was continuing her 14-year-old fast demanding repeal of the 'draconian' Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

A local court in Imphal had on Tuesday freed her of charges of attempt to commit suicide.

Posted in: News 2014