A post for 40 minutes was all needed to hold Erendro Leichombam in prison for more than two months.
Manipur activists and Harvard alumni, now after the Supreme Court said his sustainable detention will reach “violations of the right to life and personal freedom”, wanting reparations.
“We pursue compensation especially because the government, especially the Manipur government, abusing the NSA (National Security Law), misusing executive power.
We want to send a message that there must be accountability for illegal detention,” Leichombam told Ti on Wednesday, the day after the Court Agung sought the government’s manipur responses to compensation.
“I have entered and out of prison many times.
They slap 10 shots at me.
It not only takes physical and emotional tolls but also financially.
Litigation is not cheap.” On May 13, after the Head of BJP Country, Retired Professor S Tikendra Singh, died of Covid-19, Leichombam had posted on Facebook, “The medicine for Corona is not a corona & cow.
The medicine is a science & common sense.
Professor Ji Rip.” When he began to viral, he realized the things that would “beyond Full.
” He removes a post.
Within a few hours, the police were at the door.
Complaints by Usham Deben Singh, Vice President of Manipur Unit BJP, said his posts “insulted feelings and religious sentiments” from BJP workers and the Singh family.
“The post wasn’t even there when I was arrested …
I was in the police custody for four days, after that we (he and journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem, was also arrested after his position about Singh’s death and still in detention) produced before Judicial Judge from Imphal West .
He heard our case and immediately given to us arguing us, “Leichombam said.
Then on that day, on May 17, he and the Wangkhem were detained under the NSA, where detainees did not need to be informed of arrest for up to 10 days and could be detained for up to one year.
“That’s how my way ends in the Manipur center prison for more than two months.” The time in prison is one reflection.
“I read a lot, wrote a lot.
I reread the ‘Indian discovery’ Jawaharlal Nehru and ‘Overview of the World History’,” he said.
His statement often arranged the government.
In July last year, he was indicted by incitement after he posted a photo of the King of Manipur and Rajya Sabha MP Sanajaba Leishemba with Union Home Minister Amit Shah with his statement, “Minai Macha (son of a waiter)”.
He spent one day in detention.
Two years earlier, in 2018, he was in detention for 17 days to post videos on Facebook with a directed hatred speech directed at Manipuris from Bihar.
Leichombam, 37, has studied public administration at Harvard University before he joined Anti-AFSPA activist Irom Sharmila in forming a regional party in Manipur and opposed the 2017 Assembly election.
Now, he runs a vocational training institution for 70 girls from the Manipur countryside in Imphal.
“As a teacher, I enjoy my job there.
But because of a pandemic, it has been closed for a year,” he said.
Harvard network, he said, came to his help.
“My Harvard Alumni Association (Harvard Graduate Student Union) began a petition, and it made the ball rolling,” he said.
“I also want to mention quickly about my very capable advocate, Shadan Farasat.
He happened to be my senior from Harvard.” His father L Raghumani Singh approached the Supreme Court on June 28, which argued that Leichombam’s detention was intended to “reduce the speech really not harmful”.
The Supreme Court on Monday said the detention would amounts to “violations of the right to life and personal liberty” and ordered Leichombam’s release.
“The first thing I did after exiting was hugging my mother.
He cried,” he said.