Mail Today, 20 April 2009
Uphold our laws which say that even Qasab has a right to fair trial
When it comes to terrorists, is the Indian legal system, an unrecognised Guantanamo? Consistent with aberrational practice, terrorists are tortured by the police, vilified by the media, threatened by fundamentalists and jingoists, denied legal and constitutional rights and pressurised into confessions.
Under Article 22( 1) of the Constitution of India, no person who is arrested “shall be denied… a
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