ABVP stage black flag protest against Jethmalani

As ABVP workers raised slogans “ Jethmalani go back and Jetmalani murbabad”,police force surrounded them to avoid any untoward incident on the way as the senior lawyer and foreign delegation were expected to reach the high court for hearing on Binayak sen’s appeal,scheduled to be held in the afternoon.

Late last night,a group of ABVP and BJYM members had staged black flag demonstrations at the Mana airport in Raipur when an eight member European Union delegation arrived in Chhattisgarh for proceeding to Bilaspur today.

The EU delegation in India had sought assistance in “facilitating an observer mission,including representatives of Delhi-based diplomatic missions from Belgium,france,Germany,Hungary,Sweden,the UK and the EU to attend the hearing on appeal by Dr Binayak Sen in High Court in Bilaspur on January 24.

The foreign delgates are Peter Kimpian (Hungary),Raphael Martin de Lagarde (France),Alexandra Berg von Linde (Sweden),Florian Burkhardt (Germany),Jochen Anthierens (Belgium),Iain Twigg (UK),Louise de Brass (Denmark) and Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee (EU) are arriving here to attend the hearing.

State BJP president Ram Sewak Paikra had criticized the EU delegation move come as an observer mission saying that it amounted to interference in the functioning of the judiciary.