CPM’s efficiency was evident at the speed at which they got the fast-track courts to pass sentences on top leaders of the CPI(Maoist). Not even a year has passed and the punishment of life sentence is already given in just one of the cases for which they have been falsely charged. With daily hearings at the Midnapur courts the judge passed life sentence on two comrades and as a ‘concession to his age and frail health’ the judges passed a five year sentence on Politburo member comrade Sunil Roy (alias Shome). Central Committee member and West Bengal State Secretary, Patit Pawan Haldar (alias Tapas), and also Santoshdev Nath were both given life sentences.

The ‘crime’ of these three comrades was that they fought on the side of the oppressed against an inhuman system to makes the bulk of the population live in destitution. This was their real ‘crime’ in the eyes of the ruling classes. Such a massive sentence on just one of the cases slapped on them is bound to arouse the anger in the entire country against this openly biased judicial system and their political accomplices. No poor or revolutionary can ever get justice from the present legal system, which at the lower level is nothing but an extension of the police system, and at the higher level acts as a toy in the hands of the imperialists, compradors, feudals and their hangers on.

While the rich and powerful get away with murder the poor and their true representatives must face the brutality of the courts. Today this is glaringly visible to all. No wonder soon after the passing of the judgment com. Shome stated the people of the country will never tolerate this horrendous judgment and the country will burn.

People’s march strongly condemns this judgment and calls for the unconditional release of revolutionaries thrown into the jails by the Indian ruling classes.