SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
A special court in Jagdalpur ( Chhattisgarh ) on Saturday, September 5, found guilty all ten of the murderers in the 2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack case, which involved senior Congress figures Vidya Charan Shukla and Mahendra Karma.
Nearly the entire top management of the state’s Congress was destroyed by the invasion in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar area on May 25, 2013. Bhupesh Baghel, a head of the BJP and former chief minister, claimed that the massacre’s “larger conspiracy” had not been adequately investigated. He also criticized the verdict as “incomplete justice.”
Ajay Singh Rajput, the Unique Judge for the NIA situations, reserved his ruling on the maximum penalty for September 16, according to defense attorney Arvind Choudhary.
101 testimony ‘ court recorded statements
While the demo trial for the first 11 accused was initially underway, one of them later passed away. Advocate Choudhary claimed that the prosecution had recorded the testimony of 101 testimony and that the accused defendant included two people.
The special court found guilty Pramila Modiyam ( 40 ), Chaitu Lekam, Sumitra Punem Modiyam, Mukka Mandavi, Kosa Kavasi, Aayata Markam, Madkami Deva, Joga Madkami, Banjami Sanna, and Mahadev Nag.
” We may file an appeal in the High Court against the judgment.” The wisdom has not yet been delivered to us. After receiving a copy of the purchase, we will be able to file an appeal, according to advocate Choudhary to PTI.
Falsely implicated, claim people
Guddu Kavasi, the accused nephew of Kosa Kavasi, claimed Kosa and Mukka Mandavi had been fabricated. He claimed that both of them were occupied making plans for weddings in the town when the attack occurred.
They were never present at the time of the assault, they claimed. Those who were involved have given up and are now living comfortably, while those who were not are are also paying the price. The communities are devastated and disintegrated, according to Guddu.
Mobs attacked the Congress ‘” Parivartan Rally” on May 25, 2013 on the national bridge in Jhiram Valley in preparation for the state legislature elections.
29 dying, over 30 hurt,
More than 30 people were hurt, including Congress officials, citizens, and security officers. Nand Kumar Patel, the then-state’s former president of opposition Mahendra Karma, Vidya Charan Shukla, the previous union minister, and top Congress president and former MLA Uday Mudliyar were among the dead.
Within two weeks of the invasion, the therefore Raman Singh-led BJP authorities handed over the investigation to the NIA. In order to investigate the incident, the state government established a criminal payment led by therefore Chhattisgarh High Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra.
On September 25, 2014, the NIA filed a command plate with the NIA against nine of the accused who had been detained in a special prosecutor in Jagdalpur. On September 28, 2015, it filed a secondary charge plate against 30 people, with two of them later detained.
Some of the accused who were later identified by the NIA as absconders after turned themselves in to the police, according to authorities.
New Pine in 2020
A Unique Investigation Team was set up in the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in January 2019 to look into the strike, alleging that the NIA had never looked into the larger conspiracy that led to it.
On May 25, 2020, police filed a new FIR at Darbha police station in violation of Sections 302 ( murder ) and 120B ( criminal conspiracy ) of the then IPC against unidentified individuals on the complaint of Jitendra Mudliyar, the son of slain Congress leader Uday Mudliyar.
On June 16, 2020, the NIA requested that the firm handle the new investigation. The company then approached the Supreme Court, which declined to intervene, after the petition was rejected.
Baghel argued that larger conspiracies were not being investigated.
Baghel repeatedly claimed that the larger crime had not been investigated, making the issue a significant social flashpoint in Chhattisgarh.
The former chief minister also claimed that Ganapathi and Ramanna, two Communist leaders, were first identified in the NIA’s Pine in connection with the plot, but that their names did not appear on the charge sheet.
The Congress also claimed that the NIA research lost speed after the NDA government assumed control of the Centre in 2014.
The Jhiram Ghati Inquiry Commission’s report even sparked some contentiousness. On November 6, 2021, Anusuiya Uikey, the government of the Chhattisgarh High Court, received the report from the minister and registration. The state government had not received any information from Raj Bhavan, according to Bhaghel, who was then chief secretary, who questioned the manner in which the review was presented to the government.
The Congress authorities after reconstituted the administrative commission by appointing a new president and a representative and extended its term by six weeks.
But, after adding more terms of reference, the High Court granted a temporary suspension to the reformed commission’s trials. While hearing a Petition filed by a senior BJP MLA and then-Leader of Opposition Dharam Lal Kaushik, the keep was granted.
Baghel claims “incomplete fairness,” and that is what it means.
In a lengthy article on X, Baghel reacted to the verdict, calling the decision “incomplete righteousness” because the alleged larger political conspiracy at issue had not been looked into.
He claimed that in such a situation, just 10 lower-level Naxals can be deemed to be guilty.
The NIA had already claimed that 200 people had carried out the Jhiram harm. 39 people were listed as accused by the NIA. However, the company failed to capture more than ten people because of frequent carelessness during the exploration. One miracles at whose behest that the NIA had now removed the names of the best Naxalite leaders from the Pine.
Deepak Baij, leader of the state parliament, criticized the justice served by the conviction of ten defendants. He claimed that merely tribal and lower-level functionaries were detained while only small-level Naxals were detained.
He claimed that some older Communist leaders had testified in interviews to the media about their involvement in the Jhiram assault and questioned whether they had received immunity.
Santosh Pandey, the BJP’s captain director, and Santosh Pandey, an MP, said the verdict was a source of satisfaction after a protracted wait and that it would help reveal the truth to the public. Bhaghel could have produced the evidence he claimed to have had regarding the Jhiram attack while he was in power for five years ( from 2018 to 2023 ), he added.
Vijay Sharma, the party’s assistant chief minister, even criticised the Congress and questioned why it had not intervened while it was in power.
SOURCE : SIASAT
