 In June 2008, the West Bengal police filed several cases against Roy after he had organized a ‘People’s Tribunal on Torture’ documenting several instances of police torture.He was arrested at Darang, Assam, along with Mr. Ravi Nair (SAHRDC), Mr. P. A. Sebastian (CPDR), Mr. Parag Das (MASS) and others on 10 December 1993, from a public meeting conveyed to celebrate Human Rights Day.On 9 December 2005, on the eve of Human Rights Day, Kirity Roy along with other activists of MASUM was arrested in front of Writers’ Buildings (State Secretariat), Kolkata.