Fresh graves found in Nandigram
FIVE FRESH graves were found by the CRPF at a deserted spot in Nandigram on Wednesday even as the West Bengal government moved a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the Calcutta High Court judgment indicting the state administration for "unjustified" firing on innocent people on March 14.The state government described the November 16 high court verdict on the alleged excesses of the state police as a "premature conclusion" arrived at without without properly evaluating the evidence on record. The state government said the high court should not have passed strictures against it.
The petition argued that the high court's finding of unconstitutionality had pre-judged and foreclosed the entire issue and would bind the CBI, thereby rendering the inquiry infructuous.
The state also took objection to the high court "summarily" deciding the quantum of compensation without appointing a committee to ascertain the nature, extent and cause of the injuries sustained by each of the victims.
The high court had directed the state administration to pay compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the families of each of the 14 people killed.
In Nandigram's Khejuri area, the discovery of the graves beside a road fuelled speculation that they were dug for persons killed by CPI(M) cadre in Sonachura on November 10. Some villagers, however, claimed that the graves were those of half-burnt and mutilated bodies of CPM cadres killed while they were making bombs in Sher Khan Chowk on October 28.
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Article taken from the issue: 6 Dec, 2007
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