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#1 DELHI POLICE FRAMES MAN IN RAPE CASE Rediff/PTI, September 30, 2004, Thursday Delhi police frames man in rape case A court in Delhi has severely indicted the police for framing a man in over a dozen cases. "He (Prempal) is innocent... The police torture converted him into a living corpse," Additional Sessions Judge S N Dhingra said. "It is a case that shows that police force has persons of criminal character in it, who are out to damage the whole institution. "It is recommended that all police officials involved in framing Prempal in various cases be given exemplary punishment and Prempal be adequately compensated for loss of valuable years of his life, wrongful imprisonment for several years and harassment for 15 years and physical and mental torture. "This is a glaring example that poor in this country have no say and if they cry for justice it falls on deaf ears. They are made to suffer and pay by their life and liberty, when they complain against police," the court observed. The police had charged Prempal, a resident of Sangam Vihar in south Delhi, with raping a seven-year-old on April 21, 2002, when she was sleeping in the courtyard of her house. The court noticed a lot of contradictions in the statement of the victim and her parents, leading it to observe that they were parroting the police version. Prempal's nightmare started in June 1991, when he complained to the Sangam Vihar police station that some anti-social elements were harassing a woman in his neighbourhood. Instead of acting against the anti-socials, the police started harassing Prempal, a mason by profession, and booked him in an Arms Act case. But he was acquitted. The second spell of misery began when Prempal reported to the cops about a theft in his house. The suspect, Niranjan, was employed under Prempal and had fled with his savings. The police did not register his complaint, but accompanied Prempal to Aligarh from where Niranjan was apprehended. The police also recovered some stolen property, but did not return it to Prempal, who complained to the commissioner. This irked the cops, who started threatening him. Prempal then moved the Delhi high court seeking transfer of the theft case to some other agency and return of stolen goods. On July 23, 1993, when he came out of the HC, the police arrested him in another Arms Act case. While in custody, he was implicated in a murder case. Again, he was acquitted in the Arms Act case. The cops then implicated him and his son Sanjay in 13 cases of theft and his wife in one case of theft. Prempal and Sanjay were acquitted in 9 of these cases and his wife was also set free. Prempal and Sanjay then left for Aligarh, where they started a small business. However, the police did not leave him and framed him in the rape case. http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/sep/30delhi.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- #2 WEST BENGAL: Naxalites' WEST BENGAL: Surprise Talks Offer Catches CPM Off Guard The Pioneer, September 30, 2004, Thursday Naxalites' surprise talks offer catches CPM off guard Saugar Sengupta/ Kolkata A sudden move by the PWG has put the Left leadership in a fix. This, by changing its rigid posture overnight and offering a conditional talk with the Left Front Government. The shrewd change of stance seems to have opened the CPI-M ranks to internal debates with lesser leaders, particularly those from the Naxalite-infested districts of Purulia, Midnapore and Bankura preferring to lap up the opportunity in order to bring a lasting peace in the region, party insiders say. Refusing to subscribe to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's ideas that the Government was not dying to talk with the extremists and that the line Andhra Pradesh Government had adopted in its quest for peace was faulty, a section of leaders feel that the Chief Minister is approaching the issue with a bourgeois mindset by seeking to buy out the revolutionaries with a steady dose of investment in the impoverished boondocks where the ultras have set up their bases. "But this approach can hardly address the basic issues which have politico-economic roots. The party or the Government cannot for eternity suppress the offenders by engaging the police. They have to be brought to political mainstream and have to be convinced of the fact that the world has left behind the era when armed revolution was relevant. The party is more under threat from within than otherwise there is an intense lack of idealism and character," maintains a section of functionaries from Midnapore. According to them, "the party rank and file cannot take it anymore. The lives of those who live in Kolkata are not under threat. We have to face the menace at the ground level. And we don't want the police to come between the people and the party." The PWG has offered conditional talks with the State Government by giving out 12 points on which an "open debate" could be held. According to State PWG chief Somen, the State Government should first come out with a statement as to why it seeks to put the PWG-MCC combine in the same bracket with the Al Qaida, Hizb and Lashkar. The outfit has also questioned the "logic behind the State Government's stand" that the PW should surrender arms before coming to the negotiating table. "How does the Government want us to drop arms when the BSF and police are wielding them?" the outfit asks, adding, "We do not want to be butchered by the police force." "Then there is no guarantee that the Government will not capture us at the talking table if we go disarmed. We shall go with our arms to the talking table." However, the group has offered to make a concession by proposing to control arms and keep from attacking the Government installations till the dialogue process is on. The PWG offer notwithstanding, a section of the Government feels that the outfit will have to come to the negotiating table sooner or later. And their latest offer for talks was the one to buy some breathing space as they want peace in Bengal, which they want to use as a corridor for the ultras hurt in Nepal offensive. "It is in their interest that they want peace with the Government," said a senior Home Department official, refusing to dwell further on the issue as to whether the Government will reciprocate. "The decision will be taken at the top most level," he added. Meanwhile, even as the Chief Minister declared once again that "we shall not allow the extremists to use Bengal as a corridor," CPI State secretary Manju Majumdar maintained, "the Government should hold talks with the PWG. There is no harm in giving all possible options a chance." http://www.dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=STATES&file_name=state1%2Etxt&counter_img=1&phy_path_it=F%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Csep3004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (CHRO) 3, Rams' Cottage Ambalathumukku Pettah Thiruvananthapuram-695024 Kerala South India Ph.: 0471-2476262 www.humanrightsindia.com www.humanrightskerala.com |
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