Soni Sori, Lingaram Kodopi denied bail by Chhattisgarh High Court

Raipur: 10th July 2013

Tribal school teacher Soni Sori and her relative Lingaram Kodopi have been denied bail by Chhattisgarh High Court in the Essar Steel case. Rejecting the bail petition, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra of Chhattisgarh High Court said that “on basis of the seriousness of the evidence,” the bail petition had been rejected. Activists, associated with campaigns to free Ms. Sori, were perhaps expecting a positive order, especially after her acquittal in all other major cases in recent months.

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