_*NAPM Welcomes Supreme Court Granting Bail to Dr. Binayak Sen *_
*New Delhi, April 15 :*The news that Dr. Binayak Sen has been granted
bail by the Supreme Court and sedition charges dropped has brought
cheers to many of us who have campaigned for his release all this while
across the world. _NAPM welcomes this and hope the case would be finally
quashed since from beginning, as established, the case has too many loop
holes. It has only been due to the persistence of the Chattisgarh
government that Dr. __Sen__has been kept in jail all this long._
Dr. Sen had filed a petition in the Chhattisgarh high court on January
6, challenging a district and sessions court order that had convicted
him, on December 24 last year, on various charges, including sedition,
and had sentenced him to life imprisonment. Dr. Sen was arrested in
Chhattisgarh in 2007 and was granted bail two years later by Supreme Court.
_Supreme Court by its order has restored __the faith in the due process
of law for many in this country once again._The observation by the Court
that mere possession of Naxal literature does not make a person a
Naxalite, guilty of sedition, as one who possesses Mahatma Gandhi's
autobiography can not call himself a Gandhian, hopefully will provide
relief to many of the human rights activists, journalists, adivasis and
others lodged in different jails across the country under UAPA, CSPSA,
MCOCA and other draconian acts.
_We do hope that this will also deter Chattisgarh government from
further mobilising attacks on the journalists and rights activists who
have tried to reach out to the adivasis in Bastar and Dantewada and not
brand them as 'Maoists' and stop perpetrating violence on dalits and
adivasis in the name of Operation Green Hunt._
Release of Dr. Binayak Sen will give a boost to our struggle for
defending the rights of the political prisoners and restoring justice
and peace in Chattisgarh.
Zindabaad !
*Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Pandey, Ulka Mahajan, **Gabriele
Dietrich, Sister Celia, **Ramakrishna Raju, Maj. Gen (Retd) Sudhir
Vombatkere, Roma, **Prafulla Samantara, Anand Mazgaonkar, Suniti S R,
Arundhati Dhuru, Rajendra Ravi, Bhupendera Singh Rawat, Mukta
Srivastava, Madhuresh Kumar*
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