Good work ny NHRC -- which is an NGO. Goes to prove the dire need of NGOs in Assam. Maybe only recently NHRC (a Delhi based body) has shown interest in Assam --with shockingly positive results.
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >And in the end, as usual, it took an outside body (the NHRC) to point
>this out to the GOA.
*** Incisive, steel trap minded observation Ram. Goes to prove, once
again, that the Assamese are unfit to govern themselves.
But of course the system of justice of desi-demokrasy and the Assam
Govt cloned in the likeness of Indian Govt. has nothing to do with
anything.
Hurricane force spinning Ram, that is what is :-)
At 3:27 PM -0500 6/10/05, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>C'da,
>
>This is indeed shocking and really disturbing. I am little confused by
>the term 'under-trial'. Are these people awaiting a trial, once they
>are held mentally competent to do so?
>
>In any case this is just horrible.
>
>> NHRC has come upon a case of five undertrials who hav! e spent decades
>> in jail
>
>This is a serious blot on successive governments in Assam, the local
>administration of mental institutions etc.
>
>And in the end, as usual, it took an outside body (the NHRC) to point
>this out to the GOA. If they did not, the GOA, would have never have
>on their own to either point this out or take steps to remedy it.
>
>--Ram
>
>On 6/10/05, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>> Torture that goes beyond madness
>>
>> TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2005 09:03:45 PM ]
>> Surf 'N' Earn -Sign innow
>> NEW DELHI: If any proof of the complete failure of criminal justice
>> system was needed, here are not one but five examples.
>>
>> NHRC has come upon a case of five undertrials who have spent decades
>> in jail. One of them has spent 54 years in jail, while the other four
>> have ! prison experience of more than three decades each.
>>
>> All are now inmates of a mental hospital in Tezpur.
>>
>> An upset commission on Friday asked inspector general (prisons),
>> Assam, and the state's chief secretary to respond within two weeks.
>>
>> The matter was reported to the commission by its rapporteur Chaman
>> Lal who visited the hospital on March 31 and April 1.
>>
>> While all cases are shocking, the worst is the plight of Machang
>> Lalung, now 77, who has been an undertrial for 54 years. The others
>> are Khalilur Rehman, who has spent 35 years there, Anil Kumar Burman,
>> who has been there for 33 years, Sonamani Deb, for 32 years, and
>> Parbati Mallik, who has been in the mental asylum for 32 years.
>>
>> Lalung now works in the hospital garden without communicating with anybody.
>>
>> The medical superintendent has stated that he is not on any
>> psychotropic medicine for several years and is free of any active
>> signs of mental illness. Despite that, Lalung has not been produced
>> in the trial court after August 9, 1967.
>>
>> Similarly, Rehman has been in the judicial custody since 1963 and
>> continues to be in judicial custody despite being declared fit.
>> Burman also remained at the institute despite being fit to be
>> discharged from April 20, 1974.
>>
>> Deb's case is equally shocking. He was admitted to the hospital in
>> 1972 at the age of 16 years. A destitute, he was found 'not guilty'
>> on account of being insane at the time of crime. NHRC said the
>> information available does not indicate the present status of his
>> mental illness and the steps taken for his rehabilitation in case he
>> is fit for discharge.
>>
>> Mallik was admitted in 1977 when she was 21. According to the
>> information available with NHRC, she was charged with murder of her
>> mother. Her case could have been decided if she was released earlier
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