[Marxistindia] A Welcome Verdict

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 8, 2024

Press Statement

 

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

 

A Welcome Verdict

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) welcomes the judgment by the Supreme Court
nailing down the Gujarat government's illegal actions of granting remission
to eleven convicts who had been sentenced to life for gang raping of
pregnant Bilkis Bano, members of her family and also mass murdering at least
fourteen of them in the 2002 Gujarat communal carnage.  The court has
categorically asked the convicts to surrender back to prison within two
weeks.  

 

The Supreme Court division bench, going beyond the `competence' of the
Gujarat government to pass the remission order, has actually stated that it
acted in `complicity' with the convicts. The bench has also stated that a
fraud has been played by the Gujarat government in presenting the facts in
justifying the remission order.  The scathing judgment has stated that if
the convicts can "circumvent the consequence of their conviction, peace and
tranquility in the society will be reduced to a chimaera".  The fact that
the Gujarat government has furnished that the decision was also based on the
concurrence of the Central government, makes the Central government equally
complicit in this `complicity with the convicts'.  That the remission did
not take into account, the brutality of the crimes and its larger
consequence on the society and the rule of law is obvious.  

 

Governments are Constitutional entities and  if they act in violation of the
jurisdiction and considerations of law, it will play havoc with our very
existence as a democracy.  

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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