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From: [email protected]
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:44:26
To: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:0] binayak sen judgement gives a boost
toGujarat police witch hunting tactics
Dear Colleagues committed to the defence of human rights,
Everyone must exercise absolute vigilance in the days ahead as there is a
clear and present danger that anti-democractic forces are rasing their hood for
an outright assault on constitutional rights and will stop at nothing.This was
clear from the assassination last year of Advocate Shahid Azmi who had defended
scores of innocent youth falsely framed in cases of bomb blasts carried out by
covert organizations ( Kindly read the report in Tehelka of the individuals and
organizations involved ) and the PRESENT WITCH HUNT AGAINST DR.BINAYAK SEN .
It is in this context that the communications in respect of TEESTA SETALVAD
AND RAHUL SINGH AND OTHER CASES MUST BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY AND IF NECESSARY
AFTER OBTAINING LEGAL ADVISE CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS OF THREATS AND INTIMIDATION
AND WHEREVER NECESSARY ANTICIPATORY BAIL BE OBTAINED .HOWEVER THROUGHOUT THE
LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE COUNTRY CONFERENCES , SEMINARS AND PUBLIC MEETINGS BE
HELD ON THE THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF THOSE SEEKING TO IMPLEMENT THE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE OPPRESSED IN THE COUNTRY WITH THOSE POLITICAL
PARTIES PARTICIPATING IN SUCH NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES TO BE EXPOSED INCLUDING THE
LEADERS INVOLVED ALONG WITH THE SOURCE OF THEIR FUNDING . AS IS CLEAR FROM THE
RADIA TAPES IT HAS BEEN DECLARED THAT SOME POLITICAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN REDUCED
TO SHOPS OF CORPORATE BACKERS .
Wherever possible democratic members of the legal profession and honest
retired sections of the judiciary be associated with the conferences to be held
as a war is on against democratic and constitutional rights of honest citizens
in more than one region of the country and on citizens like Dr.Binayak Sen
who are committed to the implementation of the Rule of Law who expose covert
organizations such as Salwa Judum .TEESTA AND RAHUL SINGH ARE BEING THREATENED
AND INTIMIDATED FOR BEING IN THE VANGUARD OF THE MOVEMENT TO HAVE THE GUILTY
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GUJARAT POGROM EXPOSED .
FROM ONE REGION TO ANOTHER DRAW UP AND INFORMAL LIST OF RETIRED MEMBERS
OF THE JUDICIARY TO JOIN THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE PROTECTION OF
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND IN DEFEENCE OF DEMOCRACY SOUGHT TO BE ERODED AND
GRADUALLY DESTROYED .
This must be a NON SECTARIAN CAMPAIGN HOWEVER KEEP OUT THOSE WHO
ARE DIRECTLY OR THROUGH THEIR POLITICAL FORMATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACKS
ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND VIOLENCE ON WORKING PEOPLE , ADIVASIS, DALITS ,
THE PEASANTRY , SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD GROUPS AND MINORITIES AND ON
THOSE INTELLECTUALS AND OTHERS WHO SUPPORT THEIR JUST CAUSE .
DR.BINAYAK SEN IS REQUIRED TO BE BAILED OUT IMMEDIATEL AFTER CONSULTION
WITH HIS LAWYERS ON THE FOLLOWING AMONG OTHER POSSIBLE . GROUNDS:-
1 NO PRIMA FACIE CASE EXISTS AS PER THE RECORD, EVIDENCE OF JAIL AUTHORITIES
AND TAINTED EVIDENCE APART FROM THE SERIOUS FLAWS IN THE PROSECUTION CASE WHERE
THE INDIAN SOCIAL INSTITUTE WAS AS PER THE PROSECUTION'S RIDICULOUS SUBMISSION
THE PAKISTAIN ISI ETC..
2. DR.BINAYAK SEN IS UNSAFE IN THE CUSTODY OF THE CHHATTISGARH GOVERNMENT WHERE
EARLIER EVEN THE NECESSARY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE WAS NOT SUPPLIED ON A TIMELY
BASIS FOR HIS MEDICAL CONDITION.
A SYNOPSIS OF THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE LED AGAINST DR.BINAYAK SEN BE DRAWN UP FOR
USE IN THE MEETINGS TO BE HELD ALONG WITH A REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUTION
FROM ONE REGION TO ANOTHER .
SIMULTANEOUSLY COMMENCE DRAWING UP LISTS OF OFFICIALS AND NON OFFICIALS
RESPONSIBLE DIRECTLY OR COVERTLY FOR THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS , TORTURE,
IMPRISONMENT AND KILLINGS .IN ARGENTINA MILITARY AND OTHER OFFICIALS AND
POLITICAL LEADERS AMONG OTHERS ARE BEING PROSECUTED FOR CRIMES COMMITTED AFTER
THE MILITARY COUP AFTER DECADES . ALL EVIDENCE AND RECORDS TO BE CAREFULLY
MAINTAINED FROM CASE TO CASE NOT WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL BUT CIRCULATED AMONG
MANY,HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. KINDLY CONSULT FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE
RAJINDER SACHAR AMONG OTHER RETIRED JUDGES
INCLUDE THE ISSUES OF ALL THOSE BEING INTIMIDATED FROM ONE REGION TO ANOTHER
IN A SPECIAL LIST TO BE PRINTED AND CIRCULATED FROM CONFERENCE TO CONFERENCE
INCLUDING CLASSES AND CATEGORIES OF PERSONS BEING VICTIMISED WITH THE BRIEF
REASONS FOR THEIR VICTIMISATION TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE PERSECUTION IS
DIRECTLY RELATED TO AN ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE EXISTING CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY
RIGHTS AND THE EXISTING LAW WHICH THE POWERFUL WISH TO DEFEAT MISUSING POLICE
POWERS .
NILOUFER BHAGWAT
N Original Message -----
From: Kavita Srivastava <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:14 am
Subject: [humanrights-movement:3436] binayak sen judgement gives a boost
toGujarat police witch hunting tactics
To: [email protected], [email protected], f
india <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Sukla Sen
<[email protected]>, Kamayani <[email protected]>, Mahi Pal Singh
<[email protected]>, Sinha Prabhakar <[email protected]>, CPJ
<[email protected]>, [email protected], Rajindar Sachar
<[email protected]>
> *GUJARAT POLICE WITCH HUNTING CONTINUES *
>
> *.ACTIVISTS AND MEDIA PERSONS BEING HUNTED DOWN IN THE GUJARAT
> GENOCIDECASES*
>
> *Dear friends,*
>
> *We know how the Gujarat police is trying to fix Teesta Setalvad
> in some
> case or the other. The latest is trying to show that she got
> witnesses to
> file false affidavits in front of the Nanavati Commission. This
> needs to be
> condemned in no uncertain terms. The latest is also that the
> police are
> trying their best to arrest Rahul Singh also a media person who
> exposed the
> Lunawada massacre of 2005. *
>
> *Now that the Raipur Court has convicted Binayak Sen, the Police
> in all
> States are gearing up to carry out similar actions. The judgement
> has come
> as a boost to all such State police who have been hounding people and
> silencing dissent. *
>
> *Please read the news item below. And I think we need to condemn their
> attempts to nab Teesta and now Rahul Singh. *
>
> *Kavita *
>
> *Gujarat police in Bhopal to summon scribe in exhumation case**
> *Bhopal |Wednesday, 2010 6:05:06 PM IST
>
> *A six-member Gujarat police team arrived here Wednesday to serve
> summonson a senior journalist in connection with the Lunawada
> exhumation case
> related to the digging up of 21 bodies of riot victims in Lunawada in
> Gujarat in 2005.*
>
> *Rahul Singh, senior correspondent of Headlines Today in Delhi who
> coveredthe controversial exhumation for Sahara TV then, said
> Gujarat police are
> being vindictive against him for exposing the story.*
>
> *The grave was dug up by a group in December 2005 and some
> relatives of the
> victims claimed they were not informed about it, which led the
> police to
> file a case against the men who organised the exhumation.*
>
> *Since Rahul was in Delhi, the Lunawada police officials told
> Rahul's father
> N.K. Singh, resident editor of Hindustan Times in Bhopal, that
> they want to
> serve the summons and take his son with them to Gujarat.*
>
> *"They did not believe that Rahul was not in the house and asked
> me to bring
> him out," N.K. Singh told IANS. "When they realised he was not
> here they
> asked me to accept summons, but I refused."*
>
> *"Then they asked me to give a statement in the case, which also I
> refused.Finally, they said they will paste the summons on the
> wall. I said they can
> do it," he added.*
>
> *Singh also said that his friends in Gujarat informed him that
> Rahul has
> been made a co-accused in the case and that it was not a simple
> issue of
> taking his son to Gujarat, but they want to put him in jail on various
> charges.*
>
> *Rahul told IANS from Delhi: "The police now say that the digging
> of bodies
> had been done in a notified area and permission was not taken from
> them. But
> the families whose loved ones were missing after the Gujarat riots
> had no
> idea that the area was a notified one."*
>
> *"We were only doing our duty. The families whose members were missing
> contacted us and we found that at least 21 dead bodies were piled
> upon each
> other. There were pieces of clothes on them, which showed the
> bodies had
> been dumped," he said.*
>
> *Rahul added: "The Gujarat government and its police are being
> vindictiveagainst us and trying to save their face after the
> exposes."*
> *The matter has been taken up by politicians, rights activists and
> mediapersons.*
>
> *"This is an unfortunate act. Journalists who work for people's
> cause should
> not be harassed like this. In this case, Madhya Pradesh government
> shouldalso be responsible as this could not happen without their
> consent," J.P.
> Dhanopia, a state Congress spokesman, said.*
>
> *"This is an attack on the freedom of press. The Gujarat
> government want
> police and press to speak only its language," said Rajkumar
> Keshwani, a
> senior journalist.*
>
>
>
> *Gujarat Police to interrogate Bhopal journalist*
>
> Bhopal: A Gujarat Police team on Wednesday went to the residence of
> journalist Rahul Singh to take him to that State for interrogation in
> connection with a report he had filed in 2005 on graves of victims
> of the
> riots there.
>
> Rahul Singh's father N. K. Singh, who is the resident editor of a
> leadingnational daily here, told PTI that five or six people from
> the Gujarat
> Police came to his house on Wednesday morning.
>
> Mr. Singh said the police team told him that they wanted to take
> Rahul to
> Gujarat for interrogation in connection with the report that he
> had done. He
> said that according to the police team, details of what would
> happen to
> Rahul would be decided only after he reaches Gujarat with it. He
> said the
> police team told him that it had come with summons for Rahul
> although it did
> not have any warrant for him. He said that following this, the
> team said
> that it would paste the summons on his house but they did not do
> so. -
> PTI
>
>
> --
> Kavita Srivastava
> (General Secretary) PUCL Rajasthan
>
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>
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