People Uprising against DOUBLE STANDARD

SDPI NEWS NETWORK:
31st July, 2015: Kolkata:
A protest street corner meeting against double standard was organised at Seven (7) Point, Park Circus in Kolkata from 1 pm to 3.45pm. Nearly two hundred people attend. Mr Saroor Alam, Kolkata President, Mr Zainul Abedin, Kolkata District Committee member, Mr Aftab Alam, State Secretary, Prof Dr Md Afsar Ali, State General Secretary and Mr Tayedul Islam, State President delivered their speeches. Some media men, print media and electronic media attend the media." 

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The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has termed the hanging of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yaqub Memon as tragic. It seemed that the state was hell bent to execute Memon. However, the death penalty was not the answer to terrorism, and underlined that he was not the main accused, the party said.

SDPI national president A. Sayeed in a statement said that putting off Memon’s execution would have be a “fitting tribute to the humane legacy” of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who had opposed the death penalty. It is a misguided attempt to prevent terrorism, and a disappointing use of the criminal justice system as a tool for retribution, he added.

Sayeed said that India has failed to bring to justice any of the key perpetrators of the 1993 bombings. What it has achieved, though, is to send a message that its great justice system hanged the one who came back and cooperated; that it is unforgiving and that reformation is not guaranteed to any fugitive who may be considering turning himself in.

He said that Yaqub was jailed for so long and thus there was no point in giving him capital punishment after so much delay. Now, the Government of India should focus on next bunch of criminal to expedite their cases. If hanging of Yaqub was necessary, but so it is for all other such cases as well. Selective procedurals being followed is what divides the nation, and leads to rift in the society.

He wondered why this kind of determination is not seen in the Judiciary and with the President of India in the case of convicts who murdered the Prime Minister of this country by shattering his body into pieces?? And Jayalalitha is trying to release the convicts from the Jails? In such a country will the terrorists give any respect to the government?

Sayeed noted that the petition by Yaqub's lawyers faulted the rejection of mercy petitions by the President and the governor for non-application of mind as the new clemency petitions sought commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment on grounds which were different from the reasons cited by the convict in 2013 while seeking mercy from the President. Moreover, according to rules, the nearest legal centre must be contacted the day mercy plea gets rejected. That did not happen.

The statement said that Yaqub Memon was guilty. But in hanging him we passed up an opportunity to amplify the scope for grace and empathy in our justice system if a convict presented mitigating behaviour after committing a crime. This is all the starker because India is neither a muscular security state nor a merciful nation. The government should show "similar commitment" in all cases of terror as it showed in the case of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yaqub.

There have been several riots against the Muslims since independence where thousands of Muslims have suffered. Did governments take any action to prosecute /imprisoned anyone in this crime? Is killing of Muslims is not terrorism only vice versa is terrorism, the statement said. There were riot in Mumbai in 1992 where more than one thousand Muslims were butchered by police and saffron terrorists as pointed out by Sree Krishna Commission where nearly one thousand Hindu fanatics were indicated. But no legal action or prosecution took place. This double standard will ever be a black mark on the face of this great country.

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Don’t send Yakub Memon to the gallows - SDPI

SDPI NEWS NETWORK:

New Delhi, 27 July 2014:-

The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) held a massive protest demonstration at the Maharashtra Sadan, Copernicus Marg New Delhi. ‘Yakub Memon ki Phansi Roko’, ‘Zaat Paat ki Raajneeti Bandh Karo’, ‘Sab MujrimOn ko Ek Saza’, were a few of the slogans raised by the party activists. Addressing the media persons Party Vice President said After revelation from the RAW officer B. Raman, the situation in the matter of hanging of Yaqub Memon has taken a new turn where the entire India, particularly the law abiding intelligentia and activists have taken upon themselves to put the case that Yaqub Memon may not be hanged as 140 persons including retired honorable judges of Supreme Court, Members of Parliament and numerous activists and eminent personalities in view of the exposure of the facts relating to the mitigating circumstances and non performance of the prosecution as well as defense in the trial of the accused. He further said SDPI would not like the repetition of the hanging of Khudi Ram Bose and so take up as a responsibility to stand up for justice in the democratic setup of the country.

Delhi State President Advocate Aslam said it is unfortunate that the Supreme Court has refused to reconsider his execution and rejected his curative petition, while Yaqub Memon is to be hanged for being a relative of Tiger Memon on the other hand Bal Thackeray who sponsored the 1992 Mumbai riots following the demolition of Babri Masjid was given a state funeral. About 900 persons died in the barbaric riots in December 1992 and 10 days in January 1993.

Aslam slammed the Maharashtra State Government and said double standard is being practiced in the case of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yaqub Memon who is to be hanged on July 30, 2015. He said the Maharashtra government is trying to wreck vengeance on the members of the Memon family, who chose to surrender because of faith in our government and judiciary. Yaqub was singled out for the death sentence while the main perpetrators are at large. There is ample evidence that the main culprits have escaped the law with the help of agencies across the border.

A memorandum submitted with the Governor of Maharashtra and the President of India, demanded that the Justice B. N. Srikrishna's report be implemented in which the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray was named for directing the brutal violence and several police officials were indicted in the report terming the government agency as communal.

The protest demonstration was lead by the party national vice president Adv Sharfuddin Ahmed and was participated by national secretary M Rafiq Jabbar Mulla, Delhi state prez Adv Aslam and cadres and members of the party.

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