PEOPLE'S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES RAJASTHAN PRESS NOTE
Jaipur August 6, 2012 The PUCL welcomes the suspension of sentence and granting of bail to Seema Azad, UP-PUCL organizing Secretary, today 6th August, 2012 morning from the Allahabad High Court. Her lawyer Ravi Kiran Jain told us that it took no time for the Honourable Judges to suspend her sentence and grant her bail. The senior judge orally observed when the prosecution was pushing for rejection, that this was a case of the right to hold different views which had space within Indian Democracy and the Indian Law. The names of the Judges were Justice Dharni Dhar Jha and Ashok Pal Singh. The PUCL is extremely happy that Justice has finally prevailed and that Allahabad High Court restored the Civil Liberties of Seema and her husband Vishwa Vijay, thus reversing the travesty of justice that the district Court and the prosecution had indulged in using section 121 of the IPC “waging war against State “ along with various sections of the undemocratic law Un lawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA )to detain her in prison. Seema had been convicted on the basis of heresay evidence, mobile sim and Maoist literature which the prosecution alleged had been found in her bag and her house. It maybe known that Seema was taken on an illegal remand after hundred and eighty days as the police had no evidence to charge sheet her. Also the evidence that was tampered with in the court The PUCL would like to thank all the progressive groups, fellow citizens and the media which supported the struggle for the justice and release of Seema Azad and Vishwa Vijay and upholding he right to dissent in Indian Democracy.. It maybe known that On the 8th of June 2012 Additional District Judge, Sunil Kumar Singh, Presiding officer of the District and Session Court, Allahabad, pronounced life imprisonment to 36 year old Seema Azad, writer and editor of Dastak (a monthly magazine) and the Organising Secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Uttar Pradesh branch, under sec 121 of the IPC, waging war against the Government of India and for offences related to being a member and supporter of a terrorist organization. Her husband Vishwa Vijay too was similarly sentenced. The Judgement came exactly after the two had spent twenty seven months (two years and three months) in Naini Jail. The exact sections ubder which she was convicted are (Sec. 13), for conspiracy to commit a terrorist act (Sec. 18), for being a member of a terrorist gang or organisation (Sec. 20), offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation (Sec. 38), for giving support to a terrorist organisation (Sec. 39), and under the IPC for criminal conspiracy (S.120B), waging war against the government of India (S. 121) and conspiracy to wage war against the government of India (S.121A). Kavita Srivastava General Secretary Contact: Kavita Srivastava, 09351562965, mahipal singh: 9312206414 ===================================== Bhanwar Lal Kumawat (Pappu) (Office Secretary) PUCL, Rajasthan Ph : 09887158183, 0141-2594131(O) Fax : 0141-2704262 My Blog : http://pappublk.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
