Sen got bail
NEW DELHI: On Friday the most awaited moment came at last. The Supreme Court granted bail to civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition and for having links with Maoists.
At the worst he could be termed active sympathizer of Naxals, said court. The apex court said that the evidence on record proves no sedition case against Sen.
According to court mere possession of Naxal literature does not make a person a Naxalite, guilty of sedition, as one who possesses Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography cannot call himself a Gandhian.
While granting bail to the civil rights activist, the apex court said that the trial court would impose condition of bail while ordering jail authorities to release Binayak Sen.
A bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad passed the order on the petition moved by Sen challenging the order of Chhattisgarh high court denying him bail.
Sen was arrested in Chhattisgarh in 2007 and was granted bail two years later. He was honoured withJonathan Mann Award in 2008 while still in prison. A Raipur sessions court had on December 24 last year held Sen and three other people guilty of treason and for waging war against the state. He was also found guilty of sedition.
