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The demand for a commission of enquiry to go into the circumstances leading to the detention and death of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookherjee in Kashmir figured in the House of People on the 18th. Mr. N. C. Chatterjee, a talented lawyer, elaborately built up a case of conspiracy and indifference on the part of the Governments of India and Kashmir leading to the death of the leader. Dr. Katju, an equally talented advocate, demolished it with effective arguments and counter-charges, and the battle of wits was greatly appreciated by all sections of the House. Mr. Chatterjee, who raised the debate, charged the Governments of India and Kashmir with "conspiracy, complicity, and co-ordination" in manoeuvring the detention of Dr. Mookherjee. If Kashmir was a part of India, Mr. Chatterjee said every citizen had the right to visit it as any other part of the country without restraint. In any case, as the permit system for visiting Kashmir was introduced b y the Government of India for security reasons, the proper authority to detain Dr. Mookherjee was the Government of India and not the Kashmir Government. The attempt at the relevant time was therefore to get Dr. Mookherjee outside the Supreme Court's jurisdiction. Mr. Chatterjee observed, "The greatest menace to democracy is the feeling that any formidable opponent of Government can be liquidated in prison when he is held in detention without trial." Mr. Trivedi, who had visited Dr. Mookherjee in jail on more than one occasion and also a few hours before his passing away, charged the Kashmir Government with not taking adequate precautionary measures from the moment Dr. Mookherjee's ailment was known. Home Minister Dr. Katju emphatically repudiated the suggestions of "complicity and conspiracy", and turned the tables by charging that Mr. Trivedi had acted with complete indifference to the delicate health of Dr. Mookherjee.
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