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Book on Subramanium Potty released

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The verdict by P. Subramanium Potty on the missing of Rajan was not implemented in its true sense and the suspects were not given the punishment they deserved. This had led to repetitions of similar incidents of custodial torture and deaths in the State, said the Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan.

He was speaking after releasing a special edition on P. Subramanium Potty, former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, brought out by Naitika Samvadam at Ernakulam Public Library here on Thursday.

"Even though the official records say of 186 custodial deaths, which included 176 deaths in jail and 12 in police custody, no one has been convicted so far. While Indira Gandhi who declared Emergency in her capacity as the Prime Minister later regretted it, there are many who were associated with power during that period still clamouring about the benefits of Emergency," Mr. Achuthanandan said.

In his commemorative lecture, V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court judge, said that Potty demonstrated what courts could do for the common man. A proper memorial should be erected to honour the works done by him as a judge and a jurist.

"At present, public interest litigations have become tools to protect the interests of the affluent," Mr. Iyer said.

C. Gouridasan Nair, president, Kerala Union of Working Journalists, received the first copy of the book from Mr. Achuthanandan.

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