May 31, 2011
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New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) The Supreme Court today granted bail to alleged Maoist sympathiser Piyush Guha wondering whether a call for a revolution to reform the society could be treated as an offence. “A large number of material and news come to us. Similarly, such material come to you and this person also. If that is his ideology and he says revolution is the only way to reform society, can we say that is an offence”? a vacation bench of justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad said. The apex court made the remarks after senior counsel U U Lalit, appearing for Chhattisgarh government, opposed the bail on ground that Guha was an active sympathiser of Maoists and there were a large number of material and pamphlets to link him to the banned organisation. The bench said mere possession of certain material cannot be a ground for convicting a person. “Apart from these documents, are there any other material? Possession of papers is not an offence. We can’t go on the
basis of mere surmises and conjectures”, the bench said. Lalit submitted the state had material to show that Guha, besides being a Maoist sympathiser, had eulogised the killing of policemen by Naxalites and was also an accused in the Purulia arms drop case in West Bengal. (more) PTI AAC RB
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/can-call-for-revolution-be-dubbed-an-offence-sc-asks-govt/707991.html
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) The Supreme Court today granted bail to alleged Maoist sympathiser Piyush Guha wondering whether a call for a revolution to reform the society could be treated as an offence. “A large number of material and news come to us. Similarly, such material come to you and this person also. If that is his ideology and he says revolution is the only way to reform society, can we say that is an offence”? a vacation bench of justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad said. The apex court made the remarks after senior counsel U U Lalit, appearing for Chhattisgarh government, opposed the bail on ground that Guha was an active sympathiser of Maoists and there were a large number of material and pamphlets to link him to the banned organisation. The bench said mere possession of certain material cannot be a ground for convicting a person. “Apart from these documents, are there any other material? Possession of papers is not an offence. We can’t go on the
basis of mere surmises and conjectures”, the bench said. Lalit submitted the state had material to show that Guha, besides being a Maoist sympathiser, had eulogised the killing of policemen by Naxalites and was also an accused in the Purulia arms drop case in West Bengal. (more) PTI AAC RB
