by ANIL SHARMA
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen also threw his weight behind Binayak. He said the Chhattisgarh court’s judgment was a “huge perversion of our system of justice, and particularly of the laws concerning sedition. It is not at all clear, to start with, that the thing he has been exactly accused of — passing letters — has been really proved beyond doubt”.
Calling the activist a “very dedicated social worker”, Sen said, “to turn the dedicated service of someone who drops everything to serve the cause of neglected people into a story of the seditious use of something…the whole thing seems a ridiculous use of the laws of democratic India”.
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