Supreme Court Binayak Sen

• Binayak Sen released from Raipur jail

  After spending months in custody on charges of sedition, award winning civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen walked out of the Raipur jail this evening.The 61-year-old old doctor, who was sentenced to life by a local court on charges of sedition and links with Maoists, was reunited with his family amid emotional and poignant scenes, as his two daugh...

• Binayak Sen to be released from jail

  Civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen is set to be released from a jail in Raipur today.Sen's release comes after the Supreme Court granted him bail last week, striking down charges of sedition levelled against him by the Chhattisgarh government. (Read: No sedition; bail for Binayak, says Supreme Court)He had been accused of colluding with Naxalites...

• Membership of banned organization is no crime: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has ruled that mere membership of a banned organisation does not make a person criminal unless he or she resorts to violence or incites people to violence.The ruling assumes significance in the wake of life imprisonment imposed on noted civil liberties activist and pediatrician Binayak Sen by a Sessions court in Chhattisgarh for a...