Seek his guidance to take the legal route to save them
Family members of forest brigand Veerappan’s three associates, who were sentenced to death in the 1993 Palar landmine blast case, met general secretary of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Vaiko at Chennimalai in the district on Thursday and sought his help to launch a legal battle to save them from execution.
The plea for help came in the wake of the mercy plea of the four being turned down by President Pranab Mukherjee. The meeting took place at a house in Chennimalai after Vaiko addressed a group of farmers on the adverse impact of the Gas Authority of India Limited's gas pipeline project. “I was told about the arrival of the families only after the meeting and they were in tears when I met them,” Mr. Vaiko said.
Simon, Gnanaprakash, Madaiah and Bilavendra were convicted of killing 22 persons in the landmine blast. They have been in the Hindalga Central Jail in Belgaum since 2004. Gnanaprakash’s wife Selvamary and his brother Innasimuthu, Bilavendra’s wife Kamala Mary and his daughter Joswin Mary, and Simon’s brother Jayaraj met the MDMK leader and sought his help. The families of the three death row convicts came from Kollegal in Karnataka to meet Mr. Vaiko.
“I shared their concern and sorrow. I consoled the families and assured them that I will do my best to help them. I heard that Mumbai-based lawyer and campaigner against death penalty Yug Mohit Chaudhry is taking up the case,” Mr. Vaiko said, adding that he was totally against the death penalty.
“The four persons were innocent. They were not directly involved in the incident. A few of them had not even met Veerappan. Their death sentences should have been commuted,” he said.
Some young lawyers from New Delhi, who had been fighting against capital punishment, have also taken up this issue, he said.
The family members left home immediately after meeting the MDMK leader.
Keywords: Veerappan, Palar landmine blast case, Vaiko, mercy petitions
It has become the habit for VAiko to take brief for anti-nationals criminals land encroachers mafias thugs and rowdy elements.When these elements are put into trail and awarded the punishment according the crime committed,this unsolicited lawyer will imp lead himself voluntarily and talk the nonsense of the accused being are innocent .Like Subramania Swamy ,Vaiko too do not have any work other than taking up the cases of the criminals.If Veerappan's associates were not captured by the police they would have been doing the same thing.At that time the family members would have tried to correct them.They were happy about the bootees brought by them.No mercy should be shown to the criminals
Vaiko does not have any job now except to fight for wrong causes like LTTE, Veerappan etc. - we should bring in a law which states that appearing or advocating the cause of a known criminal is a greater criminal offense only then will the likes of Vaiko, VCK etc, Ram Jeth can be contained...
How about meeting the families of the 22 dead policemen and asking them to send a mercy petition to the President. If they are willing to pardon these four men, then don't think any one should have a problem.
Mr.Vaiko, do not get washed away by the tears of kin of the Mr.Veerappan’s Associates, just for the sake of your political mileage, & try to save them from gallows. They must pay now for their misdeeds of their past. There are many victims & their families who are shedding their tears due to wrong doings of these brigands. So let them face the gallows & it will be an eye opener for the other brigands to be in the future. I hope you will prevail with your senses in this case as the President of India, Mr.Pranab Mukherjee has already rejected their mercy petitions & so they must go for gallows.
I wonder what Vaiko's reaction or answer would be if the relatives of the 22 STF personnel who were blown to smithereens when the
Brigand's Land Mines went off.I wonder whether he even expressed any regret or offered consolation/condolences to the families of the bereaved.Of Course not.Why should he?
Anyway, you have to do something to make your presence felt as your
earlier grandiose plans have fizzled out and you have become a nobody in
Tamilnadu.
Mr. Vaiko must impress upon the relatives of the associates of Mr.
Veerappan that what they did was pure terror on the innocents and they
must pay the price. But, I doubt it knowing that he is very dubious
character. I commend the President of the Republic of India for not
flinching and send these associates where they belong. If only if the
politicians can keep their hands off!
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