Miscarriage of Justice

Sudha Bharadwaj On behalf of Chhattisgarh People's Union for Civil Liberties Chhattisgarh II The PUCL is deeply disappointed at the miscarriage of justice refl ected in the judgment of Raipur Additional District and Sessions judge B P Verma sentencing our National Vice-President Binayak Sen to life imprisonment under charges of sedition 124(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) read with conspiracy (120-B IPC) along with convicting him concurrently u/s 8-(1), (2), (3) and (5) of the Chhattisgarh Vishesh Jan Suraksha Adhiniyam, 2005 (Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2005) and u/sec 39 (2) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 2004 (amended). [...]there was no sub stantive evidence to confi rm any of the allegations of the prosecution. Prabhakar Sinha (President), Pushkar Raj (General Secretary), Mahipal Singh (National Secretary), and Kavita Srivastava (National Secretary) People's Union for Civil Liberties New Delhi III The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) condemns unequivocally the murder of justice in the case of Binayak Sen, a people's doctor and one of the fi rst civil libertarians to expose the state-sponsored Salwa Judum that was undertaken by the Bharatiya Janata Party government on the tribal people in Chhattisgarh and ably supported by the Congress which is the opposition party in the state. [...]Sen while also exposing one of the worst cases in post-1947 India of malnutrition and total neglect of the everyday life of the tribal people in the region showed the world the shocking story that was slowly unfolding - a slow genocide of the people in this region.