People’s Hearing on Fabricated Cases

A jury comprising of civil rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen, Dr. Ram Puniyani, Justice Ranjinder Sachar and journalists Saba Naqvi and Ajit Shahi presiding over fabricated cases concluded that it has been established beyond doubt that “the police and investigative agencies have for years run a systematic campaign to brutalise citizens by way of punishing them for defending their homeland, farms and communities, or for simply belonging to a certain community that it is labelled as a whole as being involved in terrorism,” as it is heard a case of Suresh Velamanoor whose organisation Dalit Human Rights Movement was banned by the Kerala police as a terrorist organisation.
Naqvi suggested that a comprehensive database of details of cases should be prepared while Dr. Sen purported that the helpless imprisoned citizens should be given a right to legal defence during the life of their case. Mechanisms to make the judiciary and the police accountable for framing charges and implicating citizens were discussed. Among them was taking fabricated cases to international civil rights forums and action against police officials found party to fabricating cases.