People’s Courts are the need of the hour The outrageous and illegal arrest of Disha Ravi


Article Written by Justice Markandey Katju

People’s Courts are the need of the hour The outrageous and illegal arrest of Disha Ravi and many others who legitimately exercised their Constitutional democratic right of freedom of speech and expression and criticise the government, makes it incumbent on the people of the country to set up People’s Courts. These dastardly, fascist acts are done shamelessly by the police, on instructions of their political masters, with impunity, with the Indian judiciary, the much flaunted ’Custodians of the Constitution’ and ‘Guardians of the Rights of the People’ usuallly turning a Nelson’s eye on them, and behaving like Bheeshma Pitamah who saw the disgraceful,public disrobing of Draupadi, but did nothing. These People’s Courts will not be set up by Parliament or the state legislatures, but by the people themselves, using their creativity. They must try the policemen who authorise and carry out these illegal arrests and detentions, as well as their political masters who gave them such orders, and then award them harsh punishment, to be executed in the manner the people themselves decide. There is no other way to stop these official atrocities and illegalities

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