Why is binayak sen imprisoned

No sedition; bail for Binayak Sen: Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has granted bail to civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, who had been accused of colluding with Naxalites and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition. Read: Who is Binayak Sen? The court observed that there was no evidence against Sen and that no case of sedition was made out.

At best, it said, he could be called Binayak Sen's bail plea: Supreme Court's decision today. The Supreme Court is expected to give its decision today on the bail plea of civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition. Sen, 61, has challenged the order of the Chhattisgarh High Court that had rejected his bail plea on February A professional doctor and a pass-out of Vellore's prestigio Supreme Court adjourns Binayak Sen's bail plea hearing till Friday.

Dr Sen was found guilty of sedition in December by a court in Chhattisgarh and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was accused of waging war against the state by working with Naxals in the area.

The Supreme Court has adjourned his case aft Notice issued to Chhattisgarh govt over Sen's plea. At his insistence, his cell number was printed in a Raipur newspaper. Not only did no one officially call him, but the rumours from Raipur also continued to gather steam. Finally, as his planned departure drew closer, Binayak agreed, on the advice of friends, to detrain at Bilaspur, en route to Raipur, to discuss the possibility of anticipatory bail with Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer and member of the PUCL.

I was not travelling with him, since I had planned to fulfil a longstanding promise to my mother to take her to north Bengal.

In an inspired moment, we changed the tickets of our daughters, earlier slated to go with Binayak, to travel back to Chhattisgarh with me on the 17th, while Binayak took the train alone on the 13th, the same night that I left with my mother for Malda.

After about an hour of this, there was a call on the office phone. The tenor and tone of the officer suddenly changed as he ordered Binayak to move over to the side, and declared that he was placing him under arrest. It was the 14th of May. The tailspin into which our world descended began that hot afternoon as I texted friends in Chhattisgarh and beyond from my handset, and as their responses began to come in.

Although Binayak had gone to the police station of his own accord, and had literally walked into his arrest, media reports in Chhattisgarh in the following days described the arrest as the result of a dabish raid at the home of his lawyer.

This was the beginning of my Kafkaesque existence. As we left for Raipur, we got the news that our house had been sealed following a police attempt to search our home and failure to open the front door without the key which was with me. Our initial simplistic assumption that the case was bound to be dismissed fairly soon proved to be far off the mark. His brother, his wife, Rupantar the organizational platform that we had created were all painted by the media in pitch black. The first bail application in the court of the district judge was rejected.

I still remember the manner in which the lawyers crowding the courtroom on this occasion looked at me—it was one of my first lessons as a pariah, my newfound identity. Dr Binayak Sen found guilty of sedition, gets life imprisonment.

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