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Jugal Kishore Raibir passes away Jugal Kishore Raibir - The Great Revolutionary Jugal Kishore Raibir Paid Last Tributes Medha Patkar roughed up by CPI-M men near Nandigram Prominent social activist dead Socialist International condemns emergency rule in Pakistan   INDIA: The state government of West Bengal is promoting organised crime Nandigram Update:12th November 2007 The party’s over LEFT AND INDUSTRIALISATION : CONFUSION AND OBSESSION Enough is enough Political Resolution of the National Executive of the Samajawadi Janaparishad (India) RESOLUTION OF THE SAMAJAWADI JANAPARISHAD NATIONAL EXECUTIVE   INDIA: SOCIALIST PARTY DEMANDS CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT POLICY Democratic Socialist Leader Shamim Imprisoned Without Bail Release Shamim Modi: CPI(ML) SOS CALL Shamim May be kept for long time idea for protest NGOs cry foul over activist’s arrest - Indian Express जंजीर बांधकर निकाली रैली Release Shamim Modi: CPI(M) Threat to Life of Activist Shamim...

A faculty member of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and state vice president of the Madhya Pradesh Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Shamim Modi is battling for her life after being attacked with a chopper in her flat in the Mumbai suburb of Vasai. Source: http://www.tubaah.com/video_search_results.php?search_keywords=Shamim%20Modi

Indian Express Sukanya Shetty Posted: Friday , Aug 28, 2009 at 0100 hrs Mumbai: Relenting to demands from various citizen groups and staff members of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Doenar, the state government wants the CBI to take over the investigation into the attack on activist and teacher Shamim Modi. State Home Minister Jayant Patil, who met social activist N D Patil along with others, said the case would soon be handed over to the CBI as ‘the local police was not equipped to handle the case’. “The decision was taken in a meeting. We are yet to get any orders. Once indicated, we will immediately write to the CBI and wait for their confirmation,” said a senior IAS official. Modi, 39, a professor at TISS and a political activist from Madhya Pradesh, was allegedly attacked by a security guard named Rajesh Bahadur alias Jang Bahadur. She was badly injured and was admitted to a hospital in Vasai. She has accused a senior BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh fo...

PTI STAFF WRITER 21:26 HRS IST Mumbai, Aug 28 ( PTI ) The city-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has sought a CID inquiry into the assault on one of its staff members last month. A delegation from TISS has met Home Minister Jayant Patil in this connection, it said in a statement here. Shamim Meghani Modi, an assistant professor with the institute who had earlier worked in Madhya Pradesh as an activist of Shramik Adiwasi Sanghatana, was assaulted on July 23 by a security guard at her residence in Vasai. According to the statement, the offender is yet to be nabbed. On account of the social work in Madhya Pradesh, she had faced threat to her life in the past, the statement said, seeking a CID probe and police protection to her. Source: http://www.ptinews.com/news/253938_TISS-demands-CID-inquiry-into-assault-on-professor .

The Hindu Special Correspondent MUMBAI: Shamim Modi, assistant professor with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), who was attacked by a security guard in her apartment on July 23, has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court demanding a CBI inquiry into the assault. Speaking to journalists here on Friday, she said: “We are demanding a CBI inquiry because the local police are trying to make an attempted murder case look like a robbery” under Section 397 of the IPC. Ms. Modi, who is a political activist from Madhya Pradesh, recently moved to Vasai in Thane district to take up her job at the TISS. Ms. Modi alleged that the police did not take down her statement properly and in fact deleted some of the specific charges she had levelled against a former Madhya Pradesh Minister and his son. As a political activist and part of the Shramik Adivasi Sanghatana at Beitul in Madhya Pradesh, she and her husband, Anurag, had organised workers in about 64 saw mills in Harda...

The Committee for the Release of Dr. Binayak Sen will hold a press conference on Friday, 21st August 20009 at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh from 3 to 4 PM. This is in order to draw public attention to and brief on the recent murderous attack on Shamim Modi, an activist working for about 12 years to unionise, and also otherwise mobilise, the adivasis in Harda, Betul and Hoshangabad districts of Madhya Pradesh; she is affiliated to the Shramik Adivasi Sanghatana (SAS) and the Samajwadi Jan Parishad (SJP). She is also a faculty memebr of the TISS. A demand to conduct a fair investigation and duly factor in the conspiracy angle - given the long history of harassments faced by her particularly two BJP leaders, and sawmill owners, in Harda which made the MP High Court intervene and provide state security for her - has, as it appears, failed to cut any ice with the local police authorities. On the contrary, there is a deliberate attempt to brush aside the conspiracy angle. Even dele...

The Hindu Staff Reporter BHOPAL: People from all over Madhya Pradesh have protested against the brutal attack on Shamim Modi, a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and an activist involved with several organisations in the State. The protesters submitted a petition to Governor Rameshwar Thakur here over the weekend demanding swift action by the Maharashtra Government against the attackers assistance from the Madhya Pradesh Government. They also demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter. Ms. Modi was attacked at her Vasai residence in Mumbai last month. In her statement, she reportedly indicated BJP MLA and former Revenue Minister Kamal Patel’s hand in the incident. — photo: A.M. Faruqui VOICING THEIR ANGER: People demonstrating in Bhopal on Saturday demanding arrest of the accused in connection with the recent attack on social activist Shamim Modi. http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/09/stories/2009080957180700.htm - - - -

By: chnarendra Mumbai : Social activist Shamim Modi, of the Shramik Adivasi Sanghatan (affiliated to Samajwadi Jan Parishad), was brutally attacked in her Mumbai home on Friday, July 23rd. The Sanghatan has been organising adivasis and other marginalised communities in Betul District. Since some time now the local industrialists and former Revenue Minister Kamal Patel had allegedly targeted Shamim Modi for her work as an activist with the organisation. She has faced death threats, false cases and imprisonment, and the danger to her life was deemed serious enough for the Madhya Pradesh High Court to order police protection for her in 2007. On Friday, she was attacked by a watchman of the building, who left only when he thought she was about to die. The fact that the attempted murder was clearly not a robbery alone is shown by the fact that the attacker seemed hardly interested in valuable property in the house and left only with some cash. The response of the Mumbai police has been ent...

Mukta Srivastava and Lena went visited Shamim Modi in vasai . Here is their fact finding report. We must come together to really put pressure on the state and police to take prompt action to arrest the accused, in the first place. A fact finding report Date: 31 July 2009 Background Shamim Modi who is presently teaching at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) as an Assistant Professor, is an activist of Shramik Adivasi Sanghtan, which has been working in Betul, Harda and other districts of Madhya Pradesh. Shamim is married to Anurag Modi who is also an activist with Shramik Adivasi Sanghatan. Her work has focused against the atrocities and injustice meted out to adivasis, mill workers and unorganized laborers in the area. For the last many years, due to the nexus between officials and the industrial lobby in Madhya Pradesh, she has been harassed, jailed, told to leave from 8 different districts in M.P. There have also been a number of attempts on her life (this is evident fr...

. The Hindu - ‎Jul 27, 2009‎ Staff Reporter MUMBAI: Shamim Modi, an assistant professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) here, was attacked on July 23 at her residence in Vasai, Thane district. She is under treatment and has undergone 118 stitches. According to a police complaint, Ms. Modi was attacked by Rakesh Nepali, the security guard of her housing complex. She was alone at home at the time of the incident. Nepali entered the house under some pretext, and slashed her with a knife, inflicting multiple injuries and hit her fracturing her right hand. He took away Rs.2,500 and is absconding. Police have registered a case under Section 397 (robbery or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code. Investigating Officer Ashok Pawar said the motive behind the attack would come to light only after Nepali was arrested. However, Ms. Modi’s husband Anurag Modi said that the police were probing from the robbery angle alone. The family is susp...

Indian Express Posted: Monday , Jul 27, 2009 at 0549 hrs Sukanya Shetty Mumbai: A social activist, who was attacked at her residence in Vasai on Friday night, has alleged that a politician and his son from Madhya Pradesh were behind it. Shamim Modi, who hails from the Harda district of Madhya Pradesh, shifted to Mumbai with her husband, Anurag, after she found a job as an assistant professor at the Tata Institue of Social Sciences in Deonar. Modi was allegedly attacked by a watchman and received 200 stitches and suffered multiple fractures. She is now recuperating at a nursing home in Vasai. Modi and Anurag had initiated a movement against corruption and exploitation of workers of saw mills in rural Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. “We have actively worked in Harda and have exposed the politician time and again. He had tried to attack us even when we were in MP. I am in great shock after this attack,” said Anurag. “We have recorded the victim’s statement. We are now on the lookout for the ...

. On 23rd July afternoon, Shamim Modi of the Shramik Adivasi Sanghathan Harda, Madhya Pradesh, was attacked by a watchman in her flat in Vasai, Mumbai. She is now in hospital, having had about 120 stitches put in, but is out of danger now. She survived due to her own presence of mind and putting up a fight, warding off lethal blows to her vital organs. Shamim, who is also the Madhya Pradesh Vice President of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad, is currently Asst Prof at TISS, has been harassed systematically for her work among adivasis in Harda and Betul, MP, and was recently arrested on false charges, she is now out on bail. For the past few years, she has been threatened, attacked and granted securty by the High Court, due to real threats to her life. She has been specifically threatened with death by ex revenue Minister of MP, Kamal Patel , who she suspects to be behind this attack, as the attack had the hallmarks of a contract killing. The Mumbai police is working on this lead, and also exp...

We would like to draw your attention to a murderous attack on social and political activist Shamim Modi at her residence in Vasai,Distt. Thane on Friday, July 24, 2009. The assailant, a security guard in her society,Rakesh Nepali is missing and is still to be apprehended.The society is trying for a cover up, by not acknowledging him as an employee. Since Shamim and her husband Anurag Modi have been actively campaigning against the mining mafia of M.P.,whose local leader in Harda,M.P.(where Anurag Modi resides,and Shamim did too,till recently) is a former minister in Shivraj Singh Chauhan's government, we fear the assault may have been politically motivated. The Modi couple are both highly educated,Shamim from TISS,Mumbai,where she has just joined as a faculty member,and Anurag is an engineer,also qualified from Mumbai,who has chosen to devote his life to the cause of the downtrodden and marginalized in society.This maybe an attempt also to harass them into leaving Harda permanently...

Rahul Noronha , Hindustan Times Email Author Bhopal , March 06, 2009 First Published:   02:07 IST(6/3/2009) Last Updated:   02:08 IST(6/3/2009)   When Shameem Modi was granted bail by the Madhya Pradesh High Court two days ago, after 21 days in jail, it was a sweet but hard-won victory. The demand for her arrest had come from the Harda Industries Association and Vyapari Sangh, following her involvement in the struggle of saw mill workers and hamaals (coolies) of Harda, who have been denied minimal legal entitlements. Shameem was up against the nexus between politicians and forest mafia; a battle she and her activist husband Anurag have got used to. In 1990, after completing her M Phil from Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and getting a job with Oxfam, Shameem traveled to tribal areas in MP. “Having lived in Mumbai and Delhi I had never seen how people live in rural areas. What I saw there was a revelation of sorts and I realised that independence is only in n...

मध्यप्रदेश सराकर दमन , अत्याचार और फर्जीवाड़े की सारी सीमाएं तोड़ रही है प्रकाशन दिनांक   25/2/2009 3:18:58 PM(IST)   भोपालः मध्य प्रदेश के नर्मदा   अंचल की जुझारू जन-नेता ,   अधिवक्ता एवं समाजवादी जनपरिषद की प्रदेश उपाध्यक्ष शमीम   मोदी पिछले   10   दिनों से जेल में हैं। सुश्री मोदी को दो   वर्ष पुराने बिल्कुल झूठे प्रकरणों में संगीन धाराएं लगाकर जेल भेजा गया है ,   जिनमें नीचे की अदालतों ने जमानत देने से इंकार कर दिया है और   उच्च न्यायालय में जमानत आवेदन लंबित है। एक सामान्य किंतु गरीबों के हितों के लिए संघर्षरत महिला को खूंखार अपराधी   बताकर अपहरण और हत्या के इरादे से मारपीट ,   घातक हथियारों के   साथ हमला ,   जान से मारने की धमकी देने , डकैती जेसी धाराओं में जेल में डाला गया है। यह कानून का मखौल और   दुरूपयोग है। समाजवादी जन परिषद और मध्यप्रदेश   के जन संगठन इसका कड़ा विरोध करते हैं।   (Source: http://merikhabar.com/fullstory.aspx?passfrom=enterprisestory&storyid=4035   )   Related Articles:   Shamim Modi Granted Bail

Delhi Solidarity Group   -   Thu, 03/05/2009 - 06:43 Ms. Shamim Modi, the well known social and political activist of the Shramik Adivasi Sangathan in Harda, Madhya Pradesh. She was arrested on 10 February following an ultimatum by the industries association demanding her arrest. She has been involved in the struggle of the saw mill workers and the hammals (kulies) who have been denied the minimal legal entitlements. She and her husband Anurag Modi have been involved in carrying a crusade against the nexus between politicians and forest mafia. She also contested the recent assembly election. Shamim Modi has done her B.A from Jesus & Mary College , University of Delhi , M.A. degree from Lady Shriram College , University of Delhi , M.Phil from TISS Mumbai and L.L.B. from Bhopal University . The vice president of Samajwadi Jan Parishad, MP, she has contested two assembly elections and a parliament election. She has filed a number of cases of tribal and labour rights at the MP...

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUhQ-xjQws0 ) Related Article: Shamim Modi Granted Bail

Campaigns New Delhi : In a clear case of growing hostility against human rights activists and those voicing for the voiceless, besides rising systematic discrimination against minorities, in BJP-ruled states, young woman social activist Shamim Modi has become the latest victim of the police-politician nexus in Madhya Pradesh. Shamim Modi was arrested on 10 February in some old cases. She is presently languishing in Hoshangabad jail. One is a kidnapping case. The police alleged that she had kidnapped a tribal woman but the very tribal woman told the magistrate in the court that she was never kidnapped by Shamim, yet her bail application was rejected and sent to jail. She was arrested within 24 hours following a 48-hour ultimatum by the industries association demanding her arrest. Shamim has been involved in the struggle of the saw mill workers and the hammals (kulies) who have been denied the minimal legal entitlements. She was fighting against the nexus between politicians and fores...

People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) Dear friends, You must be aware that Shamim Modi, an activist of Shramik Adivasi Sangathan and the Vice President of Samajwadi Jan Parishad, was arrested on 10 February. Yesterday she was remanded to judicial custody for another 14 days. She has been engaged in the issues of adivasis and mill-workers in Harda M.P for many years. The ongoing struggles of workers in saw- mills and plywood factories demanding proper working conditions and against the rampant violation of labour laws had led the industries association to demand the arrest of Shamim Modi and her husband. The government has obliged. The criminal charge levelled against her pertains to a case filed two years ago. This case was filed against her because her organisation had intervened in an instance of brutality against tribals by the forest officer and his staff. In any case she had obtained bail in the matter. The present arrest is being continued on the basis of the go...

You are invited to a press conference on the continued detention of Ms Shamim Modi, the well known social and political activist of the Shramik Adivasi Sangathan in Harda, Madhya Pradesh. Time: 3:00 pm Venue: Press Club of India Day/Date: Thursday, 26 February 2009 As you perhaps know she was arrested on 10 February following an ultimatum by the industries association demanding her arrest. She has been involved in the struggle of the saw mill workers and the hammals (kulies) who have been denied the minimal legal entitements. She and her husband Anurag Modi have been involved in carrying a crusade against the nexus between politicians and forest mafia. She also contested the recent assembly election. The press conference will be addressed by Shri Sunil, President Samajwadi Jan Parishad and Shri Anurag Modi. The speakers and the case will be introduced by Shri Yogendra Yadav, political analyst and commentator. (Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ncprimailinglist/message/454   ) R...

March 3 , 2009 by अफ़लातून गत १० फरवरी से हरदा और होशंगाबाद की जेलों में फर्जी मामलों में बन्द समाजवादी जनपरिषद , म. प्र. की उपाध्यक्ष साथी शमीम मोदी की जमानत की अर्जी जबलपुर उच्च न्यायालय ने मंजूर कर ली है । शमीम की गिरफ़्तारी के विरुद्ध देश भर में कार्यक्रम आयोजित किए गए । आज दिल्ली में मध्य प्रदेश भवन पर विभिन्न जन संगठनों के करीब ३५ लोगों ने प्रदर्शन किया और आवासी आयुक्त को एक ज्ञापन सौंप कर फर्जी मुकदमे वापस लेने की माँग की । शमीम की मातृ-संस्था टाटा इन्स्टीट्यूट ऑफ़ सोशल साइंसेस के शिक्षकों द्वारा प्रस्तुत ऑनलाइन प्रतिवेदन पर अब तक ४८४ लोगों ने समर्थन जताया है । हिन्दी चिट्ठेकारों ने भी प्रतिवेदन पर समर्थन जताया है । अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस ८ मार्च को शमीम के कार्य क्षेत्र हरदा में ‘ लड़ेंगे - जीतेंगे ’ की भावना से दमन के विरुद्ध महिलाओं की एक रैली आयोजित की गयी है ।   http://samatavadi.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/shamim_modi_bail_release/

Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Shamim Modi (शमीम मोदी), Madhya Pradesh state vice president of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad and social activist, after twenty-two days in prison, Adv. Joshi Jacob, All India vice president of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad said. She was arrested in gross violation of democratic rights on 10th February 2009 from her residence at Harda, Madhya Pradesh. and is presently lodged in Hoshaganbad jail. She was arrested within 24 hours following a 48-hour ultimatum by the Harda Industries Association and Vyapari Sangh demanding her arrest. Shamim has been involved in the struggle of the saw mill workers and the hammals (kulies) who have been denied the minimal legal entitlements. She was fighting against the nexus between politicians and forest mafia.

(R-L) Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadva, Sunil, president of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad Submitted on 27 February 2009 - 5:44pm. By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: In a clear case of growing hostility against human rights activists and those voicing for the voiceless, besides rising systematic discrimination against minorities, in BJP-ruled states, young woman social activist Shamim Modi has become the latest victim of the police-politician nexus in Madhya Pradesh. Shamim Modi was arrested on 10 February in some old cases. She is presently languishing in Hoshangabad jail. One is a kidnapping case. The police alleged that she had kidnapped a tribal woman but the very tribal woman told the magistrate in the court that she was never kidnapped by Shamim, yet her bail application was rejected and sent to jail. She was arrested within 24 hours following a 48-hour ultimatum by the industries association demanding her arrest. Shamim has been involved in the struggle of the saw mil...

गुरूवार , फरवरी 19, 2009,19:50 [IST गौरतलब है कि 10 फरवरी को सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता शमीम मोदी को दो साल पुराने एक मामले में हरदा पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार किया था। जन संगठनों ने शुक्रवार को फूलवती नाम की उस आदिवासी महिला को भी पत्रकारों के सामने प्रस्तुत किया जिसके अपहरण का आरोप भी शमीम मोदी पर है। समाजवादी जनपरिषद के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष सुनील का कहना है कि शमीम मोदी एक ऐसी महिला कार्यकर्ता है जिन्होंने हरदा में मजदूरों , हम्मालों , आदिवासियों और दलितों के हितों के लिए संघर्ष किया है। इसी संघर्ष से नाराज प्रशासन और नेताओं ने साजिश रचकर उन्हें जेल पहुंचा दिया। सुनील बताते हैं कि हरदा जिले की आरा मिलों में काम करने वाले मजदूर को न्यूनतम मजदूरी के भुगतान , काम के घंटों का निर्धारण , दुर्घटना का मुआवजा , भविष्य निधि का प्रावधान आदि सुविधाएं दिए जाने के लिए चलाए जा रहे आंदोलन का शमीम मोदी नेतृत्व कर रहीं थी। उद्योगपति और व्यापारी इस आंदोलन को हर कीमत पर तोड़ना चाहते थे और उन्हीं के इशारे पर प्रशासन ने शमीम मोदी पर संगीन धाराएं लगाकर जेल भेज दिया। शमीम मोदी को दो साल पहले हरदा जिले के ढेंगा गांव में ...