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Binayak Sen's case should be judged with
enlightened reason: Academicians
Monday December 27, 2010 03:46:07 PM,
IANS
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2010 Retrospect |
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Rights
activist Binayak Sen convicted, arrested
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
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New Delhi: Expressing
shock at the Chhattisgarh court's judgment on rights activist and
doctor Binayak Sen, academicians across the country and abroad
issued a statement Monday condemning the life sentence and said
that his case must be judged with "enlightened reason".
Raipur district and sessions court Dec 24 sentenced Sen to life
imprisonment for sedition and links with outlawed Maoists.
The statement has been signed by professors of the Jawaharlal
Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University, Jadavpur University,
Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Cambridge of United States, Tata Institute of Social Science and
Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, among others.
The signatories also included authors and activists.
"Doctor Binayak Sen has never resorted to violence against any
other person, never incited anyone else to resort to violence,
never entered into any conspiracy against the constitutional order
of the country and never entered into regular service of any
organisation that was involved in any such conspiracy, for
furthering its cause," the statement said.
"Yet he has been handed down this sentence whose savagery is
unbelievable. Such an action on the part of the state in the name
of preserving the constitutional order will only serve to
undermine that constitutional order itself," it added.
"The damage done by this shocking verdict to our constitutional
order must be undone. The higher judiciary of the country must
hear his appeal expeditiously, must grant him immediate bail till
the end of the appeal process, and must judge his case with
enlightened reason," the statement said.
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