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PART I: Laws don’t affect his bail rights yet Binayak Sen in jail for 19 months

New Delhi: While debating the new anti-terror laws passed in Parliament last month, Home Minister P Chidambaram acknowledged the need for a “fair balance” between respecting human rights and tough laws to deal with terror. That counter-terror measures can hurt individual rights is no idle concern. The 19-  ....Read more

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Binayak SenBy: Dunu Roy | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 23:01:05 PM Reply | Forward Good to see that Sitapati has (so far) not raised the red herring of the Salwa Judum. This has been consistently raised by the so-called 'siupporters' of Dr Sen and only serves to strengthen the whole "guilt by association" paradigm on which the prosecution has based its case. But Dr Sen's case also reveals the tragically distorted role that the judiciary is playing in the collapse of democracy in this nation. Hpefully the Express will take up this issue too - as it once magnificently did during the notorious Emergency.
Miscarriage of justiceBy: Gautam Sen | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 18:57:24 PM Reply | Forward Many thanks to Vinay Sitapati and Indian Express for highlighting the flagrant miscarriage of justice that my brother Binayak's continued denial of bail represents. The Supreme Court's refusal to grant bail has effectively acted as a sentence of indefinite incarceration, since the state is apparently left free to concoct one charge sheet after another, while prosecution witnesses collapse in disarray, and ham-handed attempts to insert fake evidence remain unreported in the media and unremarked by the court. Notice also from Ravi Shankar Prasad's remarks how the BJP government is attempting to turn an electoral victory into a confirmation of Binayak's alleged guilt. The Supreme Court refuses Binayak bail on the basis of lies by the police, while a BJP lawyer dismisses an appeal for his release on the basis of electoral victory. This is justice in shining India.
Free Binayak Sen...!By: Mahtab Alam | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 14:52:22 PM Reply | Forward Kudos to India Express and Vijay Sitapati ! Looking forward for next one.Kindly, keep it up. Mahtab Alam, APCR
Dr. Binayak SenBy: Kavita Srivastava | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 9:07:31 AM Reply | Forward Excellent initiative by Indian Express on Dr. Binayak Sen. Vinay Sitapati has done a great job of exposing the lies of the Police State that Chhattisgarh is and bringing the truth to the nation. This article will serve as a mirror to the BJP led by Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh. The Government and the police together felt that having silenced the local papers they had silenced the conscience of the nation. The Judiciary too has shown that it is not free from the executive and have served as the arm of the Chhattisgarh in complying with the injustice meted out to Dr. Sen. But Thanks to the Indian Express to have taken a stand on the issue of Binayak Sen's incarceration. We look forward to the other two parts that will follow. Kavita Srivastava
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