If 'cloning' was the problem, how is that we don't read about stark
examples from other states?
*** That is because you are selective about what you want to read or
hear, Ram. In fact this kind of thing is the rule and not the
exception. But I will be sure to post something like this for your
info., when I come across one.
At 4:35 PM -0500 6/10/05, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
C'da,
*** Incisive, steel trap minded observation Ram.
Thanks for the compliment, though throughly undeserving.
Goes to prove, once again, that the Assamese are unfit to govern themselves.
That is your unique way of gross generalizations. No, I was only
referring to the GOA. The Assamese (people) were in fact the victims.
It is the GOA that is not able to govern. A situation like this where
someone is held in Tezpur for 58 years, never produced for trial - ie
the individual was basically forgotten by the GOA. And its not just
one case, there were 5.
It is no use saying that the GOA has learned this from the Center,
because I seriously doubt, if you will find such cases in other
states, where prisoners and inmates are forgotten by the authorities
to fall between the cracks and ignored for eternity.
If 'cloning' was the problem, how is that we don't read about stark
examples from other states? Wern't they also cloned in the GOI's
image.
--Ram
On 6/10/05, 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 have 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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