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I am grateful to Krishna Iyer: Maudany

Kochi: The People’s Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nasir Maudany is all praise for the help the 92-year-old jurist and human rights activist V.R. Krishna Iyer had given him all through his detention.

At a news conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Maudany said: “I am always grateful to him for his strong interventions and sustained efforts to ensure that I received justice.”

It was after Mr. Iyer had written a strong letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi that he got proper medical care in jail. Mr. Iyer had arranged for legal help. On his advice, a senior criminal lawyer in Chennai, Varadacharya Reddiar, had brilliantly argued for him during the initial stages of the trial.

When Mr. Maudany was freed last week, Mr. Reddiar, an ailing nonagenarian, went to the Coimbatore jail to see him come out free. “Mr. Reddiar hugged and kissed me and asked me to let Mr. Iyer know that he had done what he [Mr. Iyer] had asked him to do.”

Mr. Iyer had always consoled and offered advice to Ms. Maudany and other family members, Mr. Maudany recalled with gratitude.

During his nine-year legal battle, he had received justice from the courts two times. The first was when he was acquitted by the Coimbatore special court and the other when the Supreme Court asked the Central Government to drop the charge under the National Security Act framed against him.

The Tamil Nadu officials had framed him under the Act to deny him bail or parole, Mr. Maudany alleged.

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