New Delhi, April 17: Hailing the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to civil rights activist Binayak Sen, the CPI demanded drastic amendments to the sedition law and review of all such cases by state governments to ensure that innocents are not put behind bars on similar charges.
Welcoming the Supreme Court’s observation that no sedition case was made out against Sen, the party Central Secretariat said it was “a slap on BJP’s Chhattisgarh Government that continues to violate human rights in the garb of fighting Naxal menace”.
It said a large number of CPI cadres continued to remain in Chhattisgarh jails due to “this policy of BJP Government”.
The Supreme Court verdict in Sen’s case “emphasises the need to urgently review the Sedition Law and amend it drastically.
–Agencies