Background: Mr. Damodar Turi has been arrested in connection to a case lodged at Giridih Mufassil Police Station on November 7, 2017 when a public meeting and rally had been organised by the Mazdoor Sangathan Samiti (MSS) marking 100 years of Bolshevik Revolution in Giridih, Jharkhand. MSS was banned thereafter on December 22, 2017 by the Home Department, Governemnt of Jharkhand with several of its members facing arrest and its offices being raided and shut down by Jharkhand Police. This case at Giridih was registered against 12 members of the MSS and 800 unknown persons. Mr. Turi was only a participant in the programme. The "Jharkhand Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan" JVVJVA which came into existence a few years after the formation of the state of Jharkhand, has been actively raising issues concerning displacement of tribal (adivasis). It has been actively involved in their struggle for Jal-Jangal-Jameen. Over the years the JVVJVA has raised issues including amendments to the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908 and Santal Parganas Tenancy Act, 1949. The JVVJVA has therefore been on the radar of the Government for a long time. "Loktantr Bachao Manch" (LBM) has been formed by various organisations in Jharkhand in the face of the many undemocratic measures of the Jharkhand government. The LBM programme drew attention to the anti-people measures of the present government in Jharkhand including starvation related deaths following the compulsory use of Aadhaar for availing public distribution services, the ban on MSS, and the fake encounter killings, etc. Incident detail: As per sources, on February 15, 2018 a meeting was organised at Gossner Theological Hall, Ranchi under a collective banner "Loktantr Bachao Manch". After completion of the meeting Mr. Turi was going to media offices to distribute the press release while was been arrested by police personnel from Laower Bazar Police station and was kept a night-long detention. Mr. Turi was arrested in a case registered under Section 353 (obstructing a public servant from performing his duty) of the Indian Penal Code at Mufassil police station in Giridih district on November 7, 2017. Then he was produced before the court, from where he was sent to a 14-day judicial custody. It is now been alleged by the wife of Mr.Turi that police are not allowing any one to meet Mr.Turi in Giridhi Jail.