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ABVP protests against Jethmalani,
EU observers
Monday January 24, 2011 05:53:01 PM,
IANS
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Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh): Security was beefed up around the Chhattisgarh High Court here
Monday after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) cadres
demonstrated against senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani and an
eight-member European Union (EU) team which was here to attend
rights activist Binayak Sen's bail plea hearing.
As news spread that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Jethmalani was
arriving here to appear for Sen, whose bail hearing is scheduled
for later in the day, dozens of ABVP cadres reached a road leading
to the high court building.
They raised black flags and also shouted slogans against the EU
delegation that is expected to attend the court hearing. ABVP
cadres shouted slogans like "Jethmalani go back" and "Jethmalani
murdabad".
The protests forced the authorities to deploy police
reinforcements in and around the high court which is about 110 km
from state capital Raipur.
The EU delegation members, who landed Sunday night in state
capital Raipur amid protests of "go back" by some local groups,
left for Bilaspur town Monday by car to attend Sen's hearing that
will be taken up by a division bench.
Sen, 60, who is a People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a district and
sessions court in Raipur Dec 24 on sedition charges and his links
with Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal. The court verdict has been
widely slammed by human right activists in India and abroad who
say he was victimised by the Chhattisgarh government for
highlighting human right abuses.
In Raipur, Ram Sewak Paikra, president of the BJP in Chhattisgarh
where the party has been in power since December 2003, said:
"Foreign observers have no role to play in Sen's case, their
arrival here is a direct interference in the Indian judiciary
system.
"It has never happened in India that foreign observers attended
court to monitor a case, it must be condemned in the strongest
terms."
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