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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Supreme Court to look into plea for compensation for Muslim victims

Supreme Court to look into plea for compensation for Muslim victims

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published Published on Aug 29, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 29, 2012
-The Hindu

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, espousing the cause of Muslims, has knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court seeking compensation for the community’s youth who were incarcerated in jails for years as accused in bomb blast cases but were let off subsequently.

A Bench of Justices T. S. Thakur and Ibrahim Kalifulla, after hearing senior counsel Amarendra Saran, agreed to examine the plight of such youth who were jailed for six or seven years in some cases, on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities and bomb blasts in the country since 2002.

Mr. Saran said the court’s intervention would go a long way in assuaging the feelings of the community, which was feeling alienated. Giving the instance of the Malegaon blasts in 2006 and 2008, he said a number of young persons were detained for years after the Maharashtra ATS conducted the investigations. They were, however, let off later as they were found innocent by the National Investigation Agency.

The PIL petition, filed by Gulzar Ahmed Azmi of JUEH, Maharashtra, cited the States of Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as respondents.

The Bench told counsel that it would open a Pandora’s box if the plea was entertained, pointing out that all those acquitted after several years of trial would claim relief.

Such victims should approach the competent courts, instead of seeking relief through the PIL plea, it said.

Mr. Saran said the victims didn’t have the resources to match the government’s wherewithal. Further, these cases had national ramifications, and it would be better if the Supreme Court entertained the matter. He also cited a case in which this court ordered a compensation of Rs. 50,000 for two days of wrong confinement, and contended that the victims mentioned in the PIL petition had to undergo incarceration for years. The Bench made it clear that it was not approving of any such incident, but said: “These things took place as the country is going through a very difficult time due to problems within and from outside.”

The Hindu, 29 August, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3833646.ece


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