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DAM-L LS: Justice Sachar's Statement on Gujarat Detentions (fwd)

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Rajindar Sachar,
Chief Justice (Retd.),
High Court of Delhi, New Delhi
UN Special Rappoertuer on Housing
Member, U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (Ex.)
President, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) India (Ex.)		     

23rd August 2000

Public Statement

I have come here today on the invitation of Medha Patkar and others 
on behalf of the Narmada Bachao Andolan.  I have been invited to 
attend the 'Saga of Narmada' organized by activists and victims of 
displacement, due to the Sardar Sarovar Dam, on August 24 morning at 
Domkhedi (Maharashtra), to share their agony and pain of the inhuman 
displacement violating the internationally recognized Human Rights 
Covenants and to which India is a ratifying party.

I am given to understand that the police here have been given orders 
to detain my colleagues and me when we leave Baroda for Domkhedi 
tomorrow morning. No law has been shown under which this action is 
proposed.  We are not breaking any law. We are only exercising our 
fundamental right of movement and free speech, inspite of the police 
warning not to do so. If inspite of our wanting to exercise our basic 
rights peacefully and within law, any of us are detained, arrested or 
prevented from moving, it will amount to criminal offence of 
restraint and wrongful confinement.  In that case we make it clear 
that we shall bring criminal complaint against the highest of 
political personnel and of the police administration in a Court of 
Law.

Threat of arrest will not deter us.  That strength we reiterate, more 
so in the state of father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi.

Rajindar Sachar

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