PUCL Press Statement on grant of Bail to Binayak Sen PUCL welcomes the Supreme Court judgment granting bail to Binayak Sen. It symbolizes institutional strength of our country in preserving our basic rights. The court’s implied observation that mere possession of allegedly seditious material is no reason for charging and branding someone anti-national is a matter of satisfaction for us. PUCL firmly believes that it is time to revisit laws related to the sedition that have been subject of rampant abuse by the central and the state governments. We believe that there are thousands of Binayaks languishing in several jails in the country in the name of sedition while they merely exercised their democratic rights of opposing government policies or held views contrary to the establishment. PUCL hopes that the country will sustains the present movement to resist curbs on our civil liberties that has become a rule than an exception for our governments at the center and the state level in contemporary times.
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