Ensure ‘due process’ in Vikram Buddhi case: India tells US
December 17th, 2009 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) India Thursday said it has requested the US to ensure that “due process” is followed in hearing the appeal of Vikram Buddhi, an IIT alumnus who is in jail in the US for posting hate messages against former US president George Bush.
“It is seen that Mr Buddhi has been tried and convicted through a US court process. The matter is presently sub judice, and we have requested the US government to ensure that due process is followed,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said here.
“This we continue to seek,” he stressed.
The Indian Consulate General in Chicago has had consular access to Buddhi and is closely following his case, the spokesperson added.
Buddhi, who was pursuing a Ph.D in the Purdue University, Indiana, was sentenced by a US court to 57 months’ imprisonment on Dec 11 for sending threatening emails to several US leaders, including Bush.
He is presently under detention in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.
Parents of Buddhi have protested against their son’s trial as a “total miscarriage of justice”.
Buddhi has decided to file an appeal in the appellate court in Chicago against the verdict.
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