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Quash sedition case for letter to PM, urges Kamal Haasan

  •   Tue, Oct 08 2019 07:06:27 PM

Chennai, Oct 8 (IANS): Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, here on Tuesday, urged courts to quash the sedition case filed against 49 prominent personalities in Bihar. "I request as a citizen that our higher courts move in to uphold justice with democracy and quash the case eminating from Bihar," he tweeted.

"The Prime minister seeks a harmonius India. His statements in Parliament confirms it. Should not the state and it's law follow it in letter and spirit? 49 of my peers have been accused, of sedition, contradicting the PM's aspirations," Kamal Haasan tweeted.

He was referring to an FIR registered against 49 people, including filmmaker Mani Ratnam, actress Revathi and historian Ramachandra Guha, at a Bihar police station for writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on lynching incidents in the country.

Earlier DMK President M.K. Stalin also wondered, "How can it become a sedition when asked to uphold secularism and tolerance?"

The DMK chief said branding people like Guha, Revathi and Mani Ratnam as traitors was not acceptable. Condemning the FIR, Stalin said it created doubt and fear in the people's mind whether one was living in a democratic country.
  

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Tue, Oct 08 2019

    An FIR has been lodged against forty-nine of our colleagues in the cultural community, simply because they performed their duty as respected members of civil society. They wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, expressing concern about mob lynching in our country.

    Can this be called an act of sedition? Or is harassment by misusing the courts a ploy to silence citizens’ voices?

    All of us, as members of the Indian cultural community, as citizens of conscience, condemn such harassment. We do more: we endorse every word of the letter our colleagues wrote to the Prime Minister. This is why we share their letter here once again, and appeal to the cultural, academic and legal communities to do the same. This is why more of us will speak every day. Against mob lynching. Against the silencing of people’s voices. Against the misuse of courts to harass citizens.

    According to former Chief Justice of the Delhi high court and chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India A.P. Shah, “criticism is not sedition”. It is evident that if you take the letter as a whole, leave alone sedition, no criminal offense is made out. Surely, this court decision warrants an urgent and fresh debate on the need to repeal the sedition law, for it has no place in a vibrant democracy.”

    In a country which is governed by the rule of law and which guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and belief to its citizens, the misuse of the law of sedition and other similar laws is against the very spirit of freedom for which the freedom fighters fought and gave up their lives. The shoulders of those in power who govern should be broad enough to accept criticism. Their thinking should be wide enough to accept the fact that there can be another point of view.

    The country was in peril; PM Modi was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them
    The BJP government’s inability to take criticism is ‘sure-fire recipe for policy errors.
    Jai Hind

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  • MV, MANGALORE

    Tue, Oct 08 2019

    Trump refered to Modi as "An American version of Elvis" (Elvis Presley) and also said that "maybe he is the father of India and maybe we'll call him the father of India".
    Modi has a huge fan following in India and it seems like people are ready to do anything if one says anything against him. So this sedition case was not unexpected.

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