3 min readNew DelhiJul 31, 2015 06:36 AM IST
First published on: Jul 31, 2015 at 12:00 AM IST
“The justice delivery system in the country should be seen to be impartial so as to retain the people’s confidence in it,” CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
The CPI(M) Thursday termed the execution of Yakub Memon a “miscarriage of justice”. “The justice delivery system in the country should be seen to be impartial so as to retain the people’s confidence in it,” CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said. “Law has taken its course in the Yakub case. But the same determination should be shown for other cases as well to maintain unity and sovereignty of the country.”
Yechury pointed to the Justice Srikrishna Committee report on the communal riots and the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai and said it shows the blasts were the result of the communal incidents that took place after the Babri Masjid demolition.
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“The report has also said that the Memon family suffered extensively in these riots. Foreign powers used them to carry out the blasts.” he said.
“Yakub was hanged because of the Mumbai blasts, but then what action has been taken against those responsible for the communal violence in Mumbai and elsewhere in December 1992 and January 1993 after the Babri Masjid demolition?” he said, and alleged the government was “going slow in Hindutva terrorism cases like Malegaon or Samjhauta Express blasts or in the case of (former Gujarat Minister) Maya Kodnani (an accused in the 2002 Gujarat riots case).”
An editorial in the latest issue of CPM organ People’s Democracy said, “The execution of Yakub Memon is a miscarriage of justice.”
Agreeing that Yakub was guilty of a crime, the editorial said he was “singled out for disproportionate punishment because his brother Tiger Memon, the main conspirator along with Dawood Ibrahim, eluded the law.” It also said that though Afzal Guru was hanged in March 2013, the Supreme Court had last year commuted death sentences in some major terrorist cases
“The blood lust displayed by the BJP, Shiv Sena and others with regard to those accused of terrorism is selective. We are seeing how cases involving Hindutva terrorism — Ajmer Sharif, Malegaon and Samjhauta Express blasts — are being scuttled with official connivance. Leave alone the death penalty, it is doubtful if any of the Hindutva terrorists will be convicted,” the editorial said.
“The justice delivery system in the country should be seen to be impartial so as to retain the people’s confidence in it,” CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.
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