India arrests environmental campaigners for ‘activities against the national interest’
by Damien Gayle, environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#72NF8)
Sarat Sampada founders Harjeet Singh and Jyoti Aswati say allegations are baseless, biased and misleading'
Police have raided the home of one of India's leading environmental activists over claims his campaigning for a treaty to cut the use of fossil fuels was undermining the national interest.
Investigators from India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) claim that Harjeet Singh and his wife, Jyoti Awasthi, co-founders of Satat Sampada (Nature Forever), were paid almost 500,000 to advocate for the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty (FFNPT).
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