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Arrest, torture condemned

MUMBAI: Various civil rights organisations, lawyers and individuals on Friday protested the arrest and torture of Shridhar Srinivasan, Vernon Gonsalves and advocate K. D. Rao earlier this month on the suspicion that they were naxalites.

At a meeting, writer and film-maker Sagar Sarhadi said the onus was on the people who were arrested to prove their innocence and that was not the way it should be. Advocate and human rights activist Mihir Desai said the State was opposed to anyone who supported the poor and marginalised sections. The arrests were a reflection of the mood of the State and had to be understood in the context of globalisation and making the country attractive to investment in the global market, he said. Mr. Desai said the issue was not whether a person was a naxalite or not. It was now a question of the political beliefs he was holding and whether it went against the ruling classes.

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