Mr. Abhay Sahu

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  Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) chairman Abhaya Kumar Sahu was arrested in the evening as there were over 20 criminal cases pending against him, district police chief R.K. Sharma told IANS.
  
  Tension prevailed in parts of the coastal district following the arrest as Sahu's party activists demanded his immediate release.

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  We will not allow the company or the government officials to enter our area,' PPSS president Abhaya Sahu said at the meeting, adding: 'The people will protect the forest land also.'
  
  'We have put barricades in many places to prevent the entry of the government and company officials,' he said.

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  Arun Kumar Mishra, the additional district session judge at Jagatsinghpur, rejected the bail application of the accused, Abhaya Kumar Sahu, the police official told IANS.
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  Sahu, arrested Oct 12, is the chairman of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) - one of the frontal organisations spearheading agitation against the proposed project by South Korean steel major Posco in Orissa.
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  Sahu has been charged under sections 506, 436, 427, 395, 349, 323, 307,149, 148, 147, of Indian Penal Code, section 3 of SC & ST Act, and sections 25 and 27 Indian Arms Act.
  
  The offences include rioting, violence, attacking people belonging to the Scheduled castes and the Scheduled Tribes, kidnapping and attempting to kill people in the locality and possessing illegal weapons.
  
  Sahu's lawyers Subir Palit and Gatikrushna Satpathy had filed writ petition against 10 cases seeking his release on bail but the judge rejected the petition, the official said.
  
  'Police have registered false cases against Sahu for protesting against Posco,' PPSS spokesperson Prasant Paikray told IANS.
  
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  "We released them at about 1.45 a.m. Saturday after the officials - Pranab Das, a public relation officer of the firm and Debesh Swain, a senior executive - gave in writing that they will never come to the area again," said Abhaya Sahu, president of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is campaigning against POSCO's steel plant.At least four officials, including a driver and a woman employee, of the steel major had gone to Nuagaon village in Jagatsinghpur district Friday to talk to villagers about land acquisition for a $12 billion steel plant in the area.However, hundreds of villagers opposed to the project obstructed them, damaged their vehicle and took them hostage.The driver and the woman employee were released immediately while the other two were taken away to Patana village, some 100 km from here, and held hostage for over 10 hours."A top official of the company also called me and assured that they will not send any of its officials to the region where people are opposing the proposed project," Sahu told IANS.
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  Abhaya Sahu, chairman of PPSS told Hindustan Times, "They entered into our area despite our opposition.The three persons, one lady and two others, have been taken hostage.
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  While the company officials hope things would become normal in a few days and they will be able to motivate the villagers to sell their land, many locals say it would be difficult.'We will not allow any Posco official to enter our villages,' said Abhaya Sahu, president of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti -, which is campaigning against the steel plant. 'If they enter they will face the consequences,' he warned.However, Posco-India public relations officer Sasanka Patnaik told IANS: 'The anti Posco activists have presence in only one of three affected panchayats -. They are not allowing officials to enter only Dhinkia panchayat whereas Posco officials are freely entering the other two panchayats - Badakijanga and Nuagaon.'A senior district police official told IANS: 'The anti-Posco group has become so strong that police are afraid of visiting any affected villages.'On Friday, the police did not even visit the village where the anti-Posco activists had kept two company officials.It is the protestors who themselves released the officials on their own, said the official on condition of anonymity. 'Similarly, the local administration is not able to provide protection to the people who have been supporting Posco,' he said.There have been numerous clashes between those for and against Posco in the past but police have not arrested a single person from either side, he said.
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  "We will not allow any Posco official to enter our villages," said Abhaya Sahu, president of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is campaigning against the steel plant."If they enter they will face the consequences," he warned.

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  According to Abhay Sahu, president of the Sangram Samiti, on June 22 the villagers opposing the steel project would form human chains in the villages under the three gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakunjanga to oppose the move to establish the steel plant in their locality.
  
  On June 23, the Sangram Samiti will organise a public meeting at Balitutha, the place from where hundreds of people supporting the project had chased away the anti-project activists in November last year.The meeting is likely to be attended by national level leaders of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) and Communist Party of India, Sahu said on Monday.
  
  On the remaining five days, Sangram Samiti activists would hold public meeting in every village and hamlet under the three gram panchayats where people were likely to be affected by the project.
  
  "We will continue our opposition to the venture till the government orders shifting of the project site from the three gram panchayats to any other place," Sahu said.

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  Abhay Sahu, the president of an activist group dedicated to fighting the Posco project, told the Press Trust of India news agency the hostages would not be released until the company pledged not to develop the site.But they were released after the villagers received assurances from Posco that they would not enter their village, PTI quoted Sahu as saying.
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  Abhay Sahu, the president of an activist group dedicated to fighting the Posco project, told the Press Trust of India news agency the hostages would not be released until the company pledged not to develop the site.But they were released after the villagers received assurances from Posco that they would not enter their village, PTI quoted Sahu as saying.

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  Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) chairman Abhaya Kumar Sahu was arrested in the evening as there were over 20 criminal cases pending against him, district police chief R.K. Sharma told IANS.
  
  Tension prevailed in parts of the coastal district following the arrest as Sahu's party activists demanded his immediate release.
  
  'We have demanded his immediate release.If he will not be released, administration will be held responsible for its consequences,' said PPSS spokesperson Prasant Paikray.

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  Police arrested Abhay Sahu, chairman of the anti-POSCO group PPSS, on Sunday in connection with attacks on the house of a POSCO supporter two years ago, a police official said.
  
  At least 24 criminal cases related to Sahu's group were pending, he said, adding police feared Sahu's supporters may step up protests after his arrest.

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  PPSS President Abhaya Sahu asked his cadres to fight the multi-national and vowed to "retaliate" the attack Thursday on its activists by "project supporters" at Dhinkia village.
  
  "We will retaliate the attack on our supporters", Sahu told PTI adding that the government should be held responsible for the eventualities at Dhinkia village.
  
  Director General of Police (DGP) G C Nanda told PTI that the police force was prepared to face any situation.
  
  He said the anti-project activists had held a march where young people were asked to display their acumen in archery.

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  PPSS president Abhaya Sahu however claimed that of the 15,000 population of the project area, only 7,00 to 1,000 people attended the rally.
  
  While Mr Sahu alleged that the meeting was a BJD show , Mr Rout said the rally had nothing to do with any political party , but a people's gathering in support of the Posco project.

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