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Rights
activist Binayak Sen convicted, arrested
Friday December 24, 2010 02:47:30 PM,
IANS
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Raipur: Rights
activist Binayak Sen, accused of links with Maoists, was Friday
convicted for sedition and conspiracy by a Chhattisgarh court and
arrested soon after, leaving his family and fellow activists
shaken and disappointed.
District and Sessions Court judge B.P. Varma found Sen guilty on a
variety of counts such as under 124 A and 120 B of the Indian
Penal Code and also under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security
Act. Sen, a medical doctor, had been out on bail since last year.
"I lost my voice, please leave me," his distraught brother
Dipankar Sen, in tears, told mediapersons at the court complex.
Kavita Srivastava, the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
national general secretary, reacted angrily.
"This is a fabricated case by the Chattisgarh government and
police. It is hard to believe the judgment. We will go for
appeal," she said.
Said Rajendra K. Sail, former PUCL president: "It is injustice,
totally disappointing. There was no evidence against Sen. We will
appeal."
Sen was arrested in 2007 from Bilaspur for alleged links with
Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal but was released in May 2009 at
the behest of the Supreme Court.
The case against continued even as Maoist guerrillas stepped up
attacks on security forces in Chhattisgarh, killing scores of
them.
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