Media & Entertainment News Binayak Sen slams sedition laws May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as ‘draconian’ and said these are often misused to ‘suppress the voice of the people’. ‘The UK does not have a sedition law, but we have it. It was brought to India by the British and we are still continuing it,’ […] Read more » Binayak Sen sedition laws
Top Law News Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani Activist and physician Binayak Sen’s counsel Ram Jethmalani Friday said that while he is generally not much bothered with the victory or loss of a case, Sen’s bail has come as a ‘personal’ happy moment for him. ‘I must confess that this is one of those cases in which I am personally happy about what […] Read more » bail Binayak Sen Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.S. Bedi Ram Jethmalani
Criminal Law News ‘Cultural protest’ against Binayak Sen’s jail Tuesday February 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on ‘Cultural protest’ against Binayak Sen’s jail Tuesday Director Aparna Sen, musician Rabbi Shergill and writer Ashok Vajpeyi will be among those who will gather Tuesday for a “cultural protest” against the life term of human rights activist Binayak Sen.Sen, whose bail plea was rejected by the Chhattisgarh High Court Feb 10, is at present held in a jail in Raipur. He was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Criminal Law News Binayak Sen’s bail plea rejected February 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Chattisgarh has rejected the bail application of Dr Binayak Sen. He was sentenced to life in prison in December after he was convicted of sedition on the basis of his alleged links to Naxals in the area. Binayak Sen’s wife, Ilena expressed her disappointment at today’s court order. She told NDTV, “We […] Read more » bail plea Binayak Sen
Criminal Law News High court reserves order on Binayak Sen’s bail plea February 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the bail plea of rights activist Binayak Sen even as the state government opposed it on the grounds of his links with the Maoists.Sen is at present lodged in a jail in Raipur capital city following his sentencing to life term by a trial court Dec […] Read more » bail plea Binayak Sen
High Profile Cases Actors, filmmakers protest Binayak Sen’s jail term January 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment About 150 people marked the Martyrs Day Sunday by staging a protest in Mumbai as part of a nationwide agitation against the life imprisonment awarded to rights activist Binayak Sen. The group that included artists, activists and common people chanted slogans like “Shame on you, Chhattisgarh government” and “Free Dr. Binayak Sen”. Calling the judgment […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Top Law News ABVP protests against Jethmalani, EU observers January 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An eight-member team of European Union, which arrived here on Sunday night to witness Human rights activist Binayak Sen’s bail hearing tomorrow, faced protests from lawyers and ABVP workers who showed EU representatives black flags and shouted slogans against them. The team that arrived at the airport with eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani, a BJP MP, […] Read more » Binayak Sen Jethmalani
Criminal Law News High Court seeks records in Binayak Sen conviction January 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The division bench of Chhattisgarh high court in Bilaspur on Friday sought case records of the trial court that awarded life imprisonment to rights activist Binayak Sen on December 24. The court had posted January 24 as the next date for hearing Sen’s bail application. The division bench has sought the record from the trial […] Read more » Binayak Sen conviction
Top Law News India urged to repeal sedition law January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian parliament should repeal the colonial-era sedition law which it said was employed to silence peaceful political dissent, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. And the Indian government should drop sedition cases against prominent activists such as Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy and others, the US-based body said. In two recent cases, in New Delhi and […] Read more » Arundhati Roy Binayak Sen sedition law
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Kolkata doctors protest for Binayak Sen’s release January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish and dissent over the life imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen, city-based medical practitioners, professors and students Tuesday held a protest here and started a signature campaign demanding his release. Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner ‘Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign’ joined the protest. ‘Binayak Sen was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Top Law News Hundreds protest in Bhopal against Binayak Sen’s conviction January 2, 2011 / January 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hundreds of people belonging to at least nine organisations held a rally in Bhopal on Saturday to protest against the life imprisonment verdict awarded to rights activist and doctor Binayak Sen. The protestors marched to Nilam Park from Yadgare Shahjani Park, shouting slogans against the sentence. “If Binayak Sen, who has worked in remote areas […] Read more » Binayak Sen conviction
Top Law News Chhattisgarh right activists protest Binayak Sen’s conviction January 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Right activists and workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) held a rally and staged a sit-in Friday here to extend support to activist Binayak Sen, who was sentenced to life by a local court here last week. It was the first […] Read more » Binayak Sen