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Jharkhand mass sedition cases: Rahul Gandhi says report 'should have shocked nation's conscience'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday castigated the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Jharkhand government for registering mass sedition cases against 10,000 unnamed Adivasis in Khunti district. The former Congress leader, who cited a Scroll.in report that brought the matter to light, also criticised the media for not reporting on the matter in depth.

On Tuesday, Scroll.in had reported about the sedition cases registered against Adivasis who had participated in the Pathalgadi movement. The charges were spelled out in 14 first information reports filed in 2017 and 2018. The actual number of people accused of sedition may be higher if there are more FIRs than those accessed by Scroll.in.

“That any government could slam the draconian ‘sedition’ law on 10,000 Adivasis, fighting against state oppression, should have shocked the conscience of our nation and raised a media storm,” Gandhi tweeted. “But it hasn’t. Our ‘sold out’ media may have lost its voice; as citizens can we afford to?”

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