By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Delhi : Known for his adversarial take on issues, Justice Markandey Katju the former Supreme Court judge and former chairman of Press Club of India, has termed Yakub Memon’s conviction as based on very weak evidence.
In series of posts shared on this Official social Networking Page on Facebook, the Ex Supreme Court judge said, ” My opinion: Yakub Memon has been convicted on very weak evidence.”
While illustrating his stand, Katju wrote that there has been gross travesty of justice in the case of Yakub Memon.
“I have carefully studied the judgment of the Court. The evidence on which he has been found guilty is very weak. This evidence is (1) retracted confession of the co-accused, and (2) alleged recoveries,” he wrote in his Facebook post
Further explaining his post, Katju wrote, “As regards the first, everyone knows how ‘confessions’ are obtained by the police in our country–by torture. And torture is such a terrible thing that one will confess to anything under torture. Joan of Arc confessed to be a witch under torture. Morever, in Yakub Memon’s case the ‘çonfession’ was retracted.As regards ‘recoveries’, anyone having even the slighted knowledge of the working of the police knows that such alleged recoveries are often planted.”
Katju castigated the investigative methods of Police, adding, “The truth is that our police usually cannot nab the real culprits because it is not trained in scientific investigation, and yet it has to solve the crime. So the best thing to do in terrorist cases is to implicate half a dozen Muslims, since it is well known that Muslims have nothing else to do except throw bombs.”