[Marxistindia] Remedy Flaws in Ordinance

[news from the cpi(m)]

April 25, 2020


Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued  
the following statement:

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes  
any legal protection so necessary for our health workers in the fight  
against the pandemic.

However, the ordinance issued by the President of India has certain  
serious flaws. Section 3 (c) and 3 (d) together violate the principle  
of common law accepted and followed by all countries in the world  
including the criminal law jurisprudence in India on the vital issue  
of presumption of innocence until proven guilty. These two sections  
together overturn this principle on its head. This is open to gross  
misuse, harassment and targeting.

Hence these two clauses 3(c) and 3(d) must be removed from the ordinance.



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