Jayram Gamit is a senior Tribal leader and a Tribal Farmers' rights activist also associated with the All India Union of Forest People. He is also a Taluk Panchayat member from Songarh, Tapi, Gujarat. He has been involved in a Campaign against efforts to hand over large tracts of tribal land to non tribals, particularly those who were mining the area surrounding the river. Despite his alignment with the ruling party, he kept fighting for the rights of the tribal farmers. According to sources, the Tribal Activist was picked up under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA Act) ahead of a major protest that he and another senior activist, Romel Sutariya of All India Union of Forest People had been planning on. This was to be held in Tapi and Chotta Udeupur on the implementation of Forest Rights Act and against the land mafia. On 31st Dec 2014, in village Ojhar, Songarh, District Tapi when few Adivasis were levelling their land on which they filed claim under Forest Rights Act (FRA), the Ranger and Forest Guards came with JCB and stopped the work and started beating tribals. False cases were filed on the tribal people and they molested the tribal women. When the tribals protested against this, there was an altercation between the tribals and the forest department. A woman forest guard who was deputed there made a false allegation against Jeyram and booked him under sections for anti-social activities. He was also booked for instigating tribals to take up arms. It is said that the District Collector, Ranjeet Kumar, got the tribal activist arrested under the pressure of local ruling party politicians to arrest Gamit following their campaign against efforts to hand over large tracts of tribal land to non tribals. Soon after his arrest, Gamit was taken to Rajkot. The arrest has taken place following a complaint from the Forest Department to the police. There is no word so far from the Gujarat authorities about the arrest. Activists from the region feel that the whole conspiracy has been orchestrated by the Forest Department in connivance with the District Administration and the Police so that he does not organize tribals in the region with other young activists like Romel Sutaria of Adivasi Kisan Sangarsh Morcha and All India Union of Forest Working People. This is not the first time that protesting activists in Gujarat are being picked up as part of "preventive" measures to stop protests. Even those who are not in any way involved in protests are "picked up" when senior government functionaries such as the Chief Minister visits an area. They are often put under house arrest or are detained ahead of apprehensions of protest. However, this is the first time in the recent past that an arrest has taken place under PASA, considered "draconian" by human rights defenders, and meant to be used against anti-social elements seeking to create disturbance.