Mangalore: No justice yet, nuns tell Sachar

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• Somasekhara Commission report should be challenged in court, says the former judge

 

• The original cross has been preserved for visitors
• There needs to be hope : Rajinder Sachar

 

Mangalore, 14 February 2011: “We have lost faith in humanity, we do not know whom to trust, because even after waiting for so long, we have not got justice,” a nun at the Adoration Monastery told the former Judge of the Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar on Sunday.

 

In good faith:Justice R. Sachar interacting with nuns at Adoration Monastery in Mangalore on Sunday.

 

Mr. Sachar visited the Adoration Monastery, which was one of the Christian religious institutions attacked in September 2008 and spoke to nuns (belonging to a cloistered convent) of the monastery from across a barrier. The nun said that in two years, several politicians had visited them, but they (the nuns) were yet to get justice.

 

A former president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Mr. Sachar told them that “there needs to be hope”. In the fight for human rights one might not always win, but the fight could not be given up, he said. Mr. Sachar visited the site where the cross was broken by the attackers (now replaced with a new one), and the original cross which had been preserved for visitors.

 

During a meeting of the PUCL on Friday evening, Mr. Sachar said the State unit of the PUCL should legally challenge the report in the Karnataka High Court. Karnataka State President of the PUCL P.B. D’Sa told The Hindu that this needed to be discussed . “At the moment, the (high) court looks like the only remedy (to challenge the Justice B.K. Somasekhara Commission report),” he said. PUCL would consider filing a petition with the High Court against the report of the commission, and place before it the report prepared by Justice M.F. Saldanha.

- The hindu