Lawyers should not fight cases of terrorists: Bitta
September 21st, 2011 - 12:06 am ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) M.S. Bitta, chairman of All India Anti-Terrorist Front, along with the kin of the victims of the Sep 7 Delhi High Court bomb blast, said Tuesday that lawyers across the nation should not fight cases of terrorists.
“I appeal to all the lawyers of India that they should not fight the cases of terrorists involved in such bomb blasts,” said Bitta at a prayer meeting near the blast site.
Bitta also spoke about the serious security lapses that led to the bomb blast.
Accusing the government of being inhuman and insensitive, the victims’ kin asked the administration not to run away from its responsibilities after just paying the compensation.
“Is the value of my brother`s life Rs.4 lakh? Is the common man’s life so cheap? And for how long this meagre compensation is going to last?” asked Ashok Jaiswal, whose elder brother Vinod Jaiswal was one of the victims.
Bitta alleged that the government had not learnt any lessons from previous terrorist attacks and asked it to provide more security to the common man.
Delhi High Court Bar Association president and Additional Solicitor General A.S. Chandhiok said that the victims’ family cases will be fought by lawyers free of cost.
Fifteen people were killed in the Sep 7 blast outside Gate 5 of the court complex.
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