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Chapter11
Jharkhand
I. Overview
Ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jharkhand has become
infamous for abusing the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002.
Jharkhand, which faces low intensity conflict with the
Naxalites, had more detainees under POTA than Jammu and
Kashmir, the central focus of India’s war against terror. Though
about 145 POTA detainees involved in 59 were released in June
2004 because of the lack of sheer evidence, many of the released
POTA detainees continued to remain in prison under various
offences filed under normal laws like the Criminal Procedure Code