Author: Editorial
Publication: The statesman
Date: May 2005
URL: http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=77530
Sabotaging due processes of law
[Note from the Hindu Vivek Kendra:
Here are cases where people are killed in groups, even by burning them
alive. And the culprits are not prosecuted for the simple reason
that they are Marxists. But does the secular media want to make any
song and dance on this issue? Do the NGOs who are so vociferous in
case of Gujarat want to take up the case of the victims here? They
do not because that would go against the practice of secularism in India.
If such a thing had happened in a BJP-ruled state, and even if the culprits
had nothing to do with any of the Sangh parivar organisations, it would
have been a media (both national and international) jamboree for a few
days.]
The sole purpose in attacking the
prime witness in the gruesome Nanoor massacre of July 2000 in which 11
Trinamul Congress supporters were slaughtered by armed CPI-M cadres was
to shield those responsible and abort their trial, by hook or by crook.
The irony is that although five years have elapsed since the occurrence
of the horrendous killings by the Marxists, the trial of their 79 accused
comrades has not yet begun. Repeated postponement of hearing (at least
seven in the last two years) because of failure of the accused to turn
up in court has made the outcome uncertain. There is little doubt that
the accused, with full backing of party bigwigs are sabotaging due processes
of law. How else do the accused fall sick and get in hospital each time
the case is ready for hearing. The attack on the prime witness shows how
determined the Marxists are to achieve their desired objective. Earlier
they hadthreatened to murder him if he dared to give evidence. The message
they seem to convey is that crime pays and nothing else does. Significantly
the attack coincided with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's campaign in neighbouring
Bolpur, his studied refusal to comment on it speaks volumes.
Alimuddin Street does not want any
hearings. Those slaughtered in Nanoor were poor landless Muslim agricultural
labourers whom the current Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee,
has branded as hired goons, dacoits and dreaded anti-socials, in a bid
to stonewall the criticism. What is happening is nothing new. Marxists
have a shameful and devious record in covering their bloody tracks. Despite
knowing well those responsible for burning alive 12 Ananda Margis in Bijan
Setu in 1982 they did nothing to bring them to justice. Subsequently at
Chhota Angaria in West Midnapore not even a case was registered although
seven Trinamul Congress supporters were burnt alive and the CBI found enough
evidence of this in investigations. In the Nanoor case also, Marxists think
they will get away. Obviously they don't believe in the old adage: as you
sow, so you reap.
