‘Mamata dictatorial,intolerant’

“Her action is most undemocratic to say the least,” he said today,adding that she is totally undeserving to be a political leader in a democratic country.

The former Supreme Court judge cautioned the administrative and police authorities of West Bengal against taking her “illegal orders”,warning that they could suffer the same fate as Nazi criminals did for acting on Hitler’s directions.

“At the Nuremburg Trials,the Nazi war criminals took the plea that orders were orders and they were only carrying out the orders of Hitler,their superior. But this plea was rejected and they were hanged. The West Bengal officials should take a lesson from the Nuremburg verdict if they do not wish to suffer a similar fate,” he said.

Expressing his “shock” over the arrest,Katju said earlier also she had behaved in a dictatorial manner. She had branded a college student Taniya Bharadwaj during a TV programme as a Maoist merely because she had asked an innocuous question. She had also got one Jadavpur University professor arrested,Katju said.

“I had earlier given a statement in favour of Mamata Banerjee because I thought one should see good points in a person’s personality also. But now I have changed my opinion… since she has no respect for constitutional and civil rights of citizens,” he said.