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Binayak
Sen granted bail
Friday April 15, 2011 02:34:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Supreme Court Friday granted bail to human rights activist Binayak
Sen, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a Chhattisgarh jail on
charges of sedition and links with Maoists.
No case for sedition was made out against Sen, the apex court
bench of Justice H.S. Bedi and Justice C.K. Prasad said while
making a scathing observation that a person does not become a
Gandhian just because he is found with a biography of Mahatma
Gandhi.
The bench said the bail would be subject to the satisfaction of
the trial court. The court ridiculed the state's submission that
Sen was actively involved in spreading disharmony and disaffection
against the state.
The court said that even if the state government's contention that
Sen was in the possession of banned material and was involved in
its circulation was true, it did not justify the charge of
sedition. Mocking at the contention of the state government, the
court said that if a biography of Mahatma Gandhi is recovered from
a person that did not make him a Gandhian.
Sen, 61, at present in a jail in the Chhattisgarh capital Raipur,
had challenged the Feb 10 order of the Chhattisgarh High Court
rejecting his bail plea.
He was sentenced by the trial court Dec 24, 2010, for sedition. He
was accused of acting as a courier between Maoist ideologue
Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata-based businessman Piyush Guha, both of
whom have also been jailed for life.
The state government, in its reply to Sen's petition in the high
court, said he "has the same ideology as that of CPI-Maoist
(Communist Party of India-Maoist) and he is addressed as a comrade
by hardcore Naxalites (Maoists)".
"He provides active support and co-ordinates in spreading the base
of CPI-Maoist in the country. For hardcore Naxalites, he arranges
safe hideouts by arranging house on rent, helps open bank account,
helps in getting employment to conceal identity and provides
employment by incorporating trusts."
The Chhattisgarh government claimed Sen was helping the Maoists in
building "urban network and sympathisers".
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