|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
By Category |
 |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
India On Media |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Others
News |
|
| 7/11 blast trial stayed |
| A set back for the Mumbai police, which claims it had built up a watertight case.
|
| INDIA
, 1-March-2008
1:57:46 AM |
| For the families of 187 victims who died in the Mumbai train blasts, the fight for justice has been put on hold.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the trial in several cases after the accused, booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, challenged the constitutional validity of the Act.
A set back for the Mumbai police, which claims it had built up a watertight case.
''In minimum time we finished our investigations and submitted the case in the court,'' said A N Roy, DGP, Maharashtra.
The accused claim that terrorism related cases come under the purview of the Union Government and not state governments.
''Our case is challenging the application of MCOCA. There is a provision for insurgency in the law,'' said Sushil Kumar, Advocate for accused.
''Maharastra legislature has not power to make law on terrorism. Supreme Court has admitted our petition and stayed the trial in three cases,'' he added.
On Friday the Supreme Court also stayed the trial in the Malegaon blast case, where three bombs killed 34 people.
In 2004 the Supreme Court had also put on hold trials in a series of blast cases in Mulund, Vile Parle, Ghatkopar and Mumbai Central.
Trials in these cases have still not started.
Will the same fate await the Mumbai train blasts case; arguably the biggest terrorist attack in India after the 1993 Mumbai blasts is for anybody to guess.
Legal experts say that given the backlog of cases in the apex court, these cases may perhaps not come up for hearing for months, even years. It is a sad reality that our over burdened judiciary and victims of injustice has come to live with.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ADVERTISEMENTS
Free offer!!! Become an administrator for your zip home page, "Post" local news (local to your postcode)& pictures, "Post" advertisement banners from local companies. Make Extra money.
|
 |
 |
|
|
| |
|
