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Gajurel remanded again
CHENNAI, INDIA, JAN 21 - The Alandur Judicial Magistrate Court remanded the politburo member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Chandra Prakash Gajurel alias Gaurav, for two more weeks in judicial custody here today.
The court sent Gajurel to the judicial custody after he failed to meet the conditions including submitting a bail amount of Rs 16,000 (IRs 10,000), which were ruled by the court on January 6. "I profoundly appeal to the court to release me," Gajurel requested the jury today before he was sent to the judicial remand.
According to the court ruling, to secure his release Gajurel has to pay the bail amount besides finding two land-possessing inhabitants of Chennai, who will agree to recommend him that they will take the responsibility if he failed to present before the court twice a week. "Even if he is released under these conditions, he has to come to the court twice a week for an indefinite period," one of the lawyers of Gajurel, R Narayanan, told The Kathmandu Post.
Advocate A Rahul and his associate Narayanan are pleading on behalf of Gajurel at the court. Despite request from the Indian government to deport Gajurel to Nepal, the Madras High Court, in its verdict two months ago, had ruled against handing him over to the Nepalese authorities citing that there was threat to his life. Nine organisations in Chennai have joined together and formed the committee to save his life with advocate A Rahul as its convenor. These organisations have been campaigning in Chennai and other parts of India for his release.
Gajurel’s wife, Kalyani, and son, Sanjeeb, who are here for the past three and two months respectively, are the only persons the Indian authorities have allowed to meet Gajurel. "Even the Indian journalists are not allowed to talk to him," said Narayanan. Sanjeeb quoted his father as saying that "he hasn’t been given any kind of torture in the custody".
Gajurel, who was heavily guarded by almost a dozen policemen and members of the Special Branch Crime Investigation Department (SBCID), was today produced at the court at about 11:10 am (local time).Posted on: 2004-01-22 04:06
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