BLEEDING INJURIES TO INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY -LAWYERS IN INDIA TAKE A LONG MARCH SEEKING JUSTICE

BLEEDING INJURIES TO INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY

 

LAWYERS IN INDIA TAKE A “LONG MARCH” ON 19th MARCH,2009 SEEKING JUSTICE

 

Tamil Nadu police have scored another dubious record of causing
bleeding injuries to a sitting High Court judge, hundreds of lawyers
and  court staff  right inside Madras High Court premises with stone-pelting
and cane charge – all inside the court premises. Every one who watched
the video clippings of the events ( available in Youtube:” Merciless beating of police on lawyers”) in the television channels has been
Terrorised and traumatised.  The  police claim that a police station
inside the court premises had been set ablaze by a mob which also pelted stones on them.

 

It is up to the police to explain how the police station could be set fire at about 6.00 p.m. when the television channels were giving a live coverage of brutal unprovoked lathi(baton) charge by the police on lawyers, judges, journalists, litigants, court-staff, ladies, children and even four stray dogs  from about 3.00 p.m !

 

      
Even if the police had the “real intention” of dispersing the ” unlawful” assembly
” by the use of “minimum force”,  as per the rules framed by the
Committee of Inspector Generals of Police in 1962 , they are
prohibited from striking any one in the head because the aim was not
to deliver instant justice! The police have gone to the court halls
and chambers in search of lawyers and had beaten every one they saw
there. Not just throwing the rules to the wind, you could see the
police pelting stones at the lawyers and judges, damaging their
vehicles , breaking the glass window panes of the court … one should
see it to believe it. Police had caused bleeding injuries to the judges and lawyers even inside their toilets of chambers where they were taking shelter.

 

Talking to journalists, the notorious Chennai city Police Commissioner K.Radhakrishnan staed that when the police were chasing  lawyers wearing black-coat and white shirts, probably the judges also got hit, thereby admitting that the whole carnage was well-planned conspiracy to suppress the unrelenting struggles being waged by the lawyers community in the State for the past several months demanding a ceasefire in Sri lanka to stop the genocide of tamils there.

 

 Even journalists were not spared from brutal
bleeding injuries. Judges and lawyers were in their uniform when they
were attacked and even  journalists who showed their ID cards were
beaten mercilessly. Hundreds of judges, lawyers and court staff -male
and female , had to keep themselves locked inside their chambers
fearing attack by the police till late in night  on the 19th February,
2009. Even the lawyers who had offices in and around court area had
been attacked and terrorised by the police .

 

 

Preliminary reports of fact-finding teams of human rights organizations confirm  that high court judges are witnesses to the police vehicles loaded with stone bags . They also state that police in white robes mingled with the crowd of lawyers and started pelting stones against the police to make it appear that a lathi- charge was warranted.

 

 

Till 16^th  March,2009, the State govt. had failed to reply to the question posed by the Supreme court as to who had ordered the police to enter the High court campus and name the officials who ordered the lathi(baton)-charge.

Are they law enforcement officials? Or are they  uniformed criminals?
Lawyers are increasingly becoming endangered species !

Even the countries having dictatorships have not faced such an attack on the judiciary. Not even during the emergency era, did the country face such an assault!

 

We urge all concerned citizens to urge the Government of Tamil Nadu to :

 

1. Suspend and arrest all police officers involved in the incident including the Director General of Police and City Police Commissioner of Chennai;

 

1. Pay Rs.Five Lakhs as compensation for each of the victims and recover the said amount from the salaries of the guilty policemen;

 

 

1. Take immediate steps to stop genocide of tamils through a cease fire in Sri Lanka;

 

1.  Take all steps to prevent such police excesses do not recur in future.

Please send appeals to :

Thiru K S Sripathi  IAS
Chief Secretary to Govt

Secretariat, Chennai – 600 009

Phone : 25671555 (O),  26247227 (R)
Fax     : 25672304
E-Mail : cs@tn.gov.in

Thiru Hans Raj Verma  IAS

Governor’s Secretariat
Raj Bhavan, Chennai – 600 022

Phone : 22351700 (O)
Fax     : 22350570
Email  : govsec@tn.nic.in 

Tmt. S. Malathi IAS

Principal Secretary to the Government,

Secretariat, Chennai – 600 009

Phone : 25671113 (O),    24892345 (R)
Fax     : 25670596
E-Mail : homesec@tn.gov.in

Thiru S Dheenadhayalan

Secretariat, Chennai – 600 009

Phone : 25672920 (O),  26453745 (R)
Fax     : 25679403
E-Mail : lawsec@tn.gov.in

Thiru K N Venkataramanan IAS

Principal Secretary to the Government,

Secretariat, Chennai – 600 009

Phone : 25672740 (O), 28132567 (R)
Fax     : 25673437
E-Mail : parsec@tn.gov.in

Thiru S K Prabakar  IAS

Secretary to the Chief Minister

Phone : 25674234 (O),