Jamia
Teachers’ Solidarity Association
Col.
Purohit: Aryavarta’s soldier, not a mere mole
The Malegaon accused Col. Purohit has been granted bail by the
Supreme Court. We know that bail in terror cases, especially those involving
bomb blasts, is rare, if not altogether impossible to secure. Take fore
example, the following cases. Mohd. Aamir Khan’s bail application was
repeatedly turned down even when his lawyer furnished medical certificates
vouching that his old mother has suffered a paralytic stroke. This, when he had spent over 12 years in jail,
and had been acquitted in over dozen of the 19 cases he was implicated in. The
reason was that the case was too ‘sensitive’. Abdul Wahid Shaikh spent 11 years
as an undertrial in the Mumbai suburban train blasts case, during which he
developed an eye ailment following custodial torture but his bail application
on medical grounds was rejected consistently. Even where absolutely NO violence
was alleged, as in the Kabir Kala Manch case, Sachin Mali, Sagar Ghorke and
Ramesh Ghaichor could secure bail only from the apex court five years into
their incarceration. We
hope the 'justice' shown to Lt. Col. Purohit can be extended to all terror-accused. [. . .]
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