CPI(ML)’s Bihar State Secretary Com. Kunal and former Party MP and AIARLA National President Rameshwar Prasad have stated that the judicial system is adopting double standards when it comes to giving justice to dalits, the poor, and the weaker sections of society. Feudal-communal and hate-mongering destructive forces who had perpetrated massacres of the poor have become fearless after getting “certificates” of acquittal from the courts. On the other hand, people from dalit, poor and weaker sections are being convicted and sentenced.
They said that such double standards of the judiciary are also apparent in the Senari massacre case where people from the poor and deprived sections have been sentenced.
Recently the main accused in the Bathe massacre Dharma Singh was honourably acquitted by the court. But in the same Jehanabad (now Arwal) district, 14 agitating CPI(ML) activists were incarcerated in jail under TADA. Several of them have since died in jail. In spite of their terms of sentence being complete the government is not releasing them. The CPI(ML) leaders further said that recently the Patna High Court has granted bail to the epitome of crime and terror Shahabuddin, rapist RJD MLA Rajvallabh Yadav, and Rocky Yadav, chief accused in the murder of a Gaya school student Aditya Sachdeva. On the other hand, the bail applications of CPI(ML) MLA Satyadev Ram and RYA National President Amarjeet Kushwaha who are in jail on false and fabricated charges have been rejected time and again. What attitude is this of the judiciary towards the poor people and struggling activists?
Com. Kunal also said that false cases had been slapped on Com. Satyadev Ram and Com. Amarjeet Kushwaha during the land struggle in 2013 at Chilmarwa village in Guthni block (Siwan district) at the behest of the then Darauli BJP MLA Ramayan Manjhi.
Com. Rameshwar Prasad said that the silence of the BJP on the acquittal of Dharma Singh and MLC Tunna Pandey raises many questions. He asked the BJP why it is silent on the crimes of a mass murderer like Dharma Singh. He further said that actually it is the BJP which has been at the forefront of giving political patronage to the Ranveer Sena. Their leaders have not only been giving patronage to the Ranveer Sena, they have also aided the massacre of the poor and dalits through supply of money and arms. The recent Cobra sting operation has exposed the political connections between BJP leaders and the Ranveer Sena chiefs. Several senior BJP leaders including Sushil Modi have time and again helped the Ranveer chiefs. He said that the people of Bihar have seen through these tricks and well recognized true feudal-communal and fascist face of the BJP.
