A delegation of CPI (M) leaders met the President of India on Saturday to draw his attention towards the grave miscarriage of justice to scores of Muslim youth who were and are being wrongly arrested and charged in cases related to terror attacks in different parts of the country. In some cases these young men have been incarcerated for ten to fourteen years as under trials and then finally acquitted by the Courts declaring them as innocents.
The delegation members informed President that Muslim youth are the most vulnerable targets today. The draconian provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) are used to deny the normal processes of justice, while there is no time bound procedure for the judicial processes.
The delegation urged President that the arrest of innocent Muslim youth has reached serious dimensions which require immediate attention particularly in the compensation and rehabilitation of these victims, the cases should get solved in time bound period and action must be taken against those who are responsible for misrepresenting the evidences to implicate innocents.
CPI (M) believes that the draconian provisions of UAPA must be reconsidered. At the time of passage of the Bill in Parliament the party had warned of consequences of keeping such provisions on the Statute book akin to TADA and POTA, reads the party statement.
The delegation led by Prakash Karat CPI (M) General Secretary, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami (Central Committee Member), Subhashni Ali (Central Committee Member) and Siaba Farooqi (CPI (M) Leader) appealed the President of India to take up these issues urgently with the Government of India.
