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We, the undersigned organizations, express our utmost condemnation on the wave of abductions carried out by the New Delhi Police against six activists last July 9 and 11, 2025. These “arrests” raise  concerns as there are clear violations of due process and basic human rights – a pattern that has been going on for years under the pretext of the “war against Naxals” and alleged “legal fronts.” This brutality has reached its worst at the commencement of the Surajkund Scheme in 2022 and Operation Kagaar since January 2024, all under the national counterinsurgency framework, Operation SAMADHAN-Prahar.

• On July 9th, police forces picked up three youth activists from Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (bsCEM) without any warrant or legal notice, a clear violation of the Indian government’s laws. All three were held in police custody without access to legal counsel nor informing their respective families.

• On July 11th, Ehtmam-ul Haque and Badaal of the Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) fell into similar circumstances when they were seized by Delhi police– again, no warrants and without legal counsel.

• On the same day, July 11, in Yamunanagar, a city 3-4 hours away from New Delhi, the same police unit abducted social worker and psychologist Samrat Singh. Delhi police has no legal jurisdiction in Yamunanagar and made no prior coordination with local authorities.

• On July 19, another student activist Rudra went missing after arriving at a train station in Delhi from Kholkata. Rudra was on his way to meet with fellow activists.

• The abducted activists were forced to sign blank pieces of paper. All were threatened to never set foot on Delhi’s National Capital Region or else they will face arrest and the most draconian charges possible.

• As of July 21, all abducted activists have been released but remain to be affected by the immense psychological and physical torture they went through at the hands of Delhi police. The eventual freedom of the 7 abducted activists could have not been possible without the militant and continuous protests of various sectors.

The Delhi police have put these activists under intense anguish, subjecting them to both psychological and physical torture. They were interrogated naked, beaten, electrocuted, and their heads dunked in toilets. Female activists in particular were subjected to sexual harassment, threats of rape and sexual degradation. 

FACAM, a joint platform of various sectors and people’s organizations including the likes of bsCEM, have been active in campaigning against the Indian state’s counterinsurgency policy– most notably the implementation of Operation Kagaar in the rural areas. Member organizations of FACAM have been engaging in platforms to raise international awareness on India’s war against the people. Through global platforms like Ground Zero and various other activities on imperialist-wars and people’s resistance, FACAM has been instrumental in letting the world know about the state-perpetrated crimes carried out through Operation SAMADHAN-Prahar and Operation Kagaar.

Their work in exposing these atrocities has made them targets of the Indian government’s McCarthyist witch-hunt in the cities as seen in the spree of red-tagging, surveillance, torture, and extra-judicial killings while maliciously accusing legal organizations as “urban Naxalites.”

Under Operation Kagaar, the current intensified counterinsurgency campaign framed as a national security measure, sweeping crackdowns have plagued tribal regions and rural areas. Adivasis and peasants are subjected to military harassment, hamletting, aerial bombardments, and strafing operations. Civilians are killed and framed as Maoist rebels, including the elderly and sick who are gunned down in broad daylight in staged encounters. Even children and infants are not spared in this terrorist policy of counterinsurgency.

The Narendra Modi regime’s Operation SAMADHAN-Prahar– including the Surajkund scheme and Operation Kagaar– openly borrows from the U.S. Counterinsurgency (COIN) playbook used by states in many parts of the world where people’s movements are challenging imperialist dominance. The United States, along with its NATO allies, has been lending its “expertise” through military exercises, arms deals, intelligence support, and ideological warfare to target people’s resistance in India and in other countries.

The mountainous regions of Central India are seeing the most violent of this brutal war. Long considered a bastion of Maoist revolutionaries, these regions are also considered untouched last frontiers that hold rich mineral resources that imperialism and local ruling classes drool over. It comes as no surprise that it is in the interest of the Indian state and its imperialist masters to continue escalating the war against people’s resistance. On the other hand, this shows how people’s resistance, including armed resistance, is intrinsically tied to the protection of the environment and natural resources.

We, people’s organizations, international networks, and the broad front of peoples fighting against imperialist wars, counterinsurgency, imperialist plunder, and fascism, decry these brutal attacks against the Indian people. We urge all democratic forces and peace-loving peoples of the world to join us in condemnation against the waves of illegal arrests, abductions, and torture against Indian activists and call for an end to the fascist violence being unleashed by the Modi regime against the Indian people.

STOP OPERATION SAMADHAN-PRAHAR!
END THE SURAJKUND SCHEME! STOP OPERATION KAGAAR!
JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF STATE FASCISM!