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Rights activist Binayak Sen, Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha were on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Raipur court for colluding with Maoists. Additional District and Sessions Judge B.P. Verma held the trio guilty under provisions of section 124 IPC (sedition), 120 B IPC (conspiracy) and Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act. The 58-year-old Dr. Sen, a paediatrician by training, had been accused by the prosecution of carrying messages and letters from Sanyal to the underground Maoists. Guha was also found involved in helping the Maoists establish a network. Dr. Sen, a PUCL activist, was arrested on May 14, 2007 from Bilaspur. He was present in the court along with Sanyal and Guha. Reacting to the conviction of Dr. Sen, his wife Elina Sen said, “What happens now is we take whatever legal recourse is available to us. We will not be able to do it immediately because higher courts are on vacation.” Terming the verdict as “completely irrational”, she said, “It is not a judgement that I would agree with.” Ms. Elina, who was present in the court during the trial, claimed, “Not a single piece of evidence came up to support this kind of conviction - sedition and conspiracy against the state. I hope justice will prevail.” Keywords: Binayak Sen, sedition -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
