Terrorism was not being spread by terrorists only, said retired Gujarat High Court Justice BJ Shethana at a function, adding that in our country ‘Judicial Terrorism” is also prevailing.
Speaking at the launch of an NGO ‘Justice for Victims of Terrorism’ in Ahmedabad, Shethana coined the term ‘Judicial Terrorism’ in context to delay in justice due to inadequate numbers of judges in Indian courts. According to him Collegium system for appointment of judges would be right as per Supreme Court opinion but many Supreme Court judges accepted the fact that there was something lacking in the system.
“Due to disputes over appointments of judges, Indian courts are suffering from large vacancies of judges. There is lots of discontent among the people due to delay in justice,” said the retire Justice.
Former Gujarat cadre IPS and an accused in the Ishrat Jahan and Sohrabuddin encounter cases, DG Vanzara who launched the NGO, said that both the encounters (Ishrat & Soharabuddin) were genuine. Vanzara went on to say that had Gujarat police not acted swiftly Narendra Modi would not have become Prime Minister.
The NGO is being headed by Former Gujarat DGP SS Khandwawala and Vanzara is General Secretary in it. The organisation is launched with a view to fight for the rights of terror victims by providing them assistance through a team of legal experts. The NGO would also provide legal aide to those police personnel who are facing charges of fake encounters in Gujarat.
Terming himself as victim of terror, former special director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Rajinder Kumar said that nowhere else in the world, but only in India police and security forces became victims of terrorism as result of false propaganda. In the past three decades, India has lost nearly 80,000 soldiers in the process of countering terrorism, said retired Major General GD Bakshi.
In the function former Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir as well as Delhi High Courts BC Patel, who is also currently member of National Human Rights Commission, remained present.