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Prashant Bhushan attacked for Kashmir
comments, one held
Wednesday October 12, 2011 08:03:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Senior
lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan was bashed up by some
youths at his Supreme Court chamber here Wednesday. He blamed the
assault, captured by a TV crew, on the rightwing Sri Ram Sene even
as one of the attackers was held.
The youths barged into his chamber and started beating him up,
before being overpowered by lawyers and others present in the
room, TV visuals showed. The youths objected to his comments on
Kashmir, Bhushan said.
"They were Sri Ram Sene activists. They are intolerant," a visibly
shaken Bhushan told IANS. He has lodged a first information report
with police.
While one attacker was held, two others are said to have escaped.
Two weeks back, Bhushan had gone to Varanasi where during a press
conference he was asked if he would favour a referendum in
Kashmir. To this, he replied there could be a referendum, he said.
It is this comment that angered the group, Bhushan said.
Many expressed shock over the incident.
"No words are enough to describe this barbaric act. Strictest
punishment should be given to these people and the true identity
of these people should be found," Congress spokesperson Abhishek
Manu Singhvi said.
Team Anna member Kiran Bedi said: "They are attacking such a
reasonable man who works for his country. The attack shows how
intolerant society has become, how desperate we become if anybody
has a dissenting voice."
The Sri Ram Sene had shot to notoriety in 2009 for attacking young
couples in Karnataka and for opposing Valentine's Day on the
ground that it was against Indian culture.
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