BHUSHAN, SR. ADVOCATE
DR. JN SHARMA
ADVOCATE
On 10/18/11, Gopalkrishnan iyer <iyer_ga@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Would it not be right if we compare Digvijay Singh to Shakuni Mama of
> Mahabharat! He too is credited with the down fall of Kauravas. UPA today is
> Kauravas in Kurukshetra?!
>
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> From: Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>
> To: "rti_india@yahoogroups.com" <rti_india@yahoogroups.com>;
> "humjanege@googlewsgroups.com" <humjanege@googlewsgroups.com>; Editor
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> Cc: RTI Activist Hari Goyal <rtidwarka@yahoo.co.in>
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 12:56 PM
> Subject: [rti4empowerment] Re: [rti_india] Attack on Advocate Prashant
> Bhushan must be squarely and unequivocally condemned, without using any
> diluting 'if' or 'but'
>
>
>
> In the forthcoming elections in four states of India, Congress does not need
> any individual or party to work against its interests, Shri Digvijay Singh
> is the tall leader to do that job since he is abusive, expert in blame
> gaming and charging the cusador the second war of Independence. Common man
> is awakened.
>
> From: Anita Vijay Mehta <vmehtaudctbby@hotmail.com>
> To: rti_india@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 10:47 AM
> Subject: RE: [rti_india] Attack on Advocate Prashant Bhushan must be
> squarely and unequivocally condemned, without using any diluting 'if' or
> 'but'
>
>
>
> Physical thrashing done to Prashant is also the freedom of
> expression...exersised by the attackers....
>
> Only thing required is that it should be one o one by free hands only and by
> giving due notice to otherside...
>
> As long as We all do not resolve : "Right is Right and not the Might is
> Right" such things are inevitable to happen...Let Prashant Bhushan and all
> of We better understand this...
>
> Vijay Mehta.
>
> To: rti_india@yahoogroups.com
> CC: chittabehera@yahoo.co.in
> From: iyer_ga@yahoo.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:59:44 +0530
> Subject: Re: [rti_india] Attack on Advocate Prashant Bhushan must be
> squarely and unequivocally condemned, without using any diluting 'if' or
> 'but'
>
>
> Prashant has only expressed democratic view, assuming that our country is a
> democratic one!
>
> The timing of the incident and Mr. Digvijay Singh's relentless utterences
> gives me an impression that
> the assailants are paid goons by ruling party to create fear and weaken
> Anna Team's India Against corruption movement and to create split!
>
> From: Chitta Behera <chittabehera1@yahoo.co.in>
> To:
> Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011 2:02 PM
> Subject: [rti_india] Attack on Advocate Prashant Bhushan must be squarely
> and unequivocally condemned, without using any diluting 'if' or 'but'
>
>
>
> Attack on Advocate Prashant Bhushan must be squarely and unequivocally
> condemned, without using any diluting 'if' or 'but'
>
> (Download Oriya article from http://www.box.net/shared/l13nrptros3lpb8vr0tv)
>
> Though most of parties, civil society groups and rights activists have
> condemned the brutal attack on senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, an
> overwhelming majority of them including Congress at one extreme and RSS at
> another have carefully chosen to dilute the tenor of their condemnation by
> adding an uncalled-for qualifying proviso to their respective statements.
> The said proviso, though differently worded by different groups, says that
> Mr.Prashant Bhushan shouldn't have spoken on the Kashmir issue the way he
> did a few days prior to the tragic incident. It was disturbing to notice
> that such commentators were overly concerned with the Kashmir issue at the
> moment, and not with the dirty violence perpetrated on Prashant Bhushan in
> his chamber in the premises of Supreme Court. It seemed, as if a plebiscite
> was being undertaken right under their nose in mainland India at that point
> of time and each of them asked to convey their opinion in the public domain
> for
> solving the much tangled Kashmir issue once and for all. On another plane
> it appeared as if Mr.Prashant Bhushan being the President or Prime Minister
> of India issued some unacceptable statement which if not shouted down
> instantly would plunge the whole nation into an irretrievable loss or
> ignominy. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort happened. Mr.Bhushan in
> capacity of a citizen of India expressed certain views on Kashmir, which may
> not be acceptable to the Government, most political parties or quite many
> social outfits. But as guaranteed by his fundamental right to freedom of
> speech and expression under Article 19(1) of the Constitution, Mr.Bhushan or
> for that matter any citizen of the country is absolutely entitled to air
> his/her views on any matter if not explicitly subject to reasonable
> restrictions on the exercise of the said right to freedom as may be required
> under Article 19 (2) of the Constitution. Has the Government, legislature or
> judiciary of the country ever imposed any such restriction on the citizens'
> freedom of expression in respect of Kashmir issue? To our knowledge no and
> never ever. Then, the moot question arises, as the moment for squarely
> condemning a physical attack on a citizen's freedom of expression comes, why
> should one dilute his/her statement of condemnation by issuing an
> uncalled-for sermon as to what the victim shouldn't have said while
> exercising the freedom of expression? The real point at issue was whether
> the violent attack on Mr.Bhushan on the ground of his espousal of certain
> views on Kashmir was justified at all? Here the question relating to merit
> or demerit of his views didn't arise at all. Because, the Constitution by
> virtue of its Article 19(1) has empowered every citizen to speak on the
> merit or demerit of any position, irrespective of the consideration as to
> whether it conflicted with or was in sync with the official line or for that
> matter
> with any other line. It is a matter of great agony and anguish that even a
> highly learned veteran of Indian judiciary and the newly inducted Chairman
> of Press Council Justice Markandey Katzu in course of his recent
> walk-the-talk interview with Editor Indian Express did also qualify his
> condemnation of violence against Prashant Bhushan with an advisory that the
> latter shouldn't have spoken the way he did on Kashmir issue. Such
> qualifying remarks by Mr.Katzu against Prashant's observations on Kashmir
> did certainly dilute the tenor of his condemnation against the physical
> attack on Prashant Bhushan perpetrated by the goons in the guise of
> self-appointed patriots allegedly to curb his freedom of speech. It's
> painful to recall that such dastardly attacks undertaken by the
> muscle-flexing goons at the instance of fundamentalists on the citizens'
> freedom of speech around this or that issue, have taken place intermittently
> in last two decades. Attacks on
> the house of Arundhati Roy for her out-of-box remarks on Kashmir, on that
> of MF Hussain for his iconoclastic creations of art and the attack on
> Binayak Sen for his anti-Salwa Jhudum observations are a few recent
> instances of vicarious persecution by the civil society goons in connivance
> with the powers-that-be. The net result of such attacks on the great free
> thinkers of our country is a slow, but steady erosion of the very legitimacy
> of the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and expression, on
> account of which India is slipping off into the murderous clutches of
> diehard fundamentalist and obscurantist forces. To safeguard India's destiny
> as a pluralist democracy, what is required at the moment is to give a try to
> Mr.Prashant Bhushan's proposal to ban and boycott those very outfits which
> in the name of 'nation' or 'religion' hold to ransom the citizens' freedom
> of expression, the foundational principle of any democracy worth the
> name.
>
> Chitta Behera, Cuttack
> 17 October 2011
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