V VENKATASWARA REDDY Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) What are political offences? Who are political prisoners? What is the role of political violence for achieving the political goal professed by its believers? What is the treatment which State should administer to those who use political violence/activities to terrorize others for achievement of their objective? Should means defeat the end? What is the state of affairs in prison? and How the prisoners should be dealt within socio-economic realities of our nation? are a few questions which, being unpalatable, have been thrown as dice on the board of this Court. These questions also test the ability of the believer of liberty and democracy to keep his prejudices and bias at bay to strictly confine to the provisions of the statute believing in the maxim "those who believe in the system, it is their duty to ensure fairness to those who question the system".

(2.) Before a humble effort is made to answer these questions, it will be appropriate to divide this judgment into five parts,

(3.) By this common judgment three petition viz., (1) Criminal Revision No. 4000 of 2011, (2) Criminal Revision No. 463 of 2012 and (3) Criminal Revision No. 1312 of 2012 shall be decided together.