Terrorist and Disruptive
Activities Act (TADA) and the National Security Act, 1980 (NSA).
Under these acts the presumption of innocence is reversed to a presumption
of guilt. Democratic freedoms of speech and association are denied.
Accused can be held without trial for 2 years.
TADA explicitly violates the International Covenant of Civil and Political
Rights. United Nations Human Rights Committee
has condemned these draconian laws
as disturbing and completely unacceptable.
More than 2700 people
mostly Sikhs were killed in India after the assassination of Prim Minister
Indira Gandhi. More than one year after the event 1000 impoverished
victims were still demanding justice and aid.
(New York Times:
November 3, 1985)
...one women who was left
paralyzed from torture has been fighting in vain for 14
years to bring her torturers to justice
..... she was held for 3 years even though she was never charged....
(Amnesty International
News Release: March 1992)
The Indian Government has failed to implement a 1985 proposal
by the Law Commission that would have facilitated the prosecution of those
responsible for killing people in custody.
(India Torture, Rape & Deaths in Custody, Al Report:
March 1992)
