You are completely wrong. Binayak Sen is no tribal nor a friend of the tribal people. He has very rich and powerful friends all over the world to support him. Most Indian tribals do not have this privilege. I do not know whether he is guilty or not. But I want him to stand trial (just like the rest of the people in India including the tribal people would if they were accused of a similar crime). I do not want his rich and powerful friends to bail him out. He is seeking special treatment. I want equality.

I did not state that Indian judicial system is as good as the American system. I indicated that money and race plays an important role in the outcome of a case in America. So the system is not as fair as some of us in India think. Recently a man was released after spending 30 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.

Most Indians know that the laws that we follow today are laws that were established during European rule. We should also stop complaining about the law after the fact. Clearly many of these laws should be modified to reflect Indian values and culture. But it should be noted that the British enacted very same laws in all the countries they ruled including the United States. But many of the European countries and countries like Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States do not have the law and order problem that we have.

This is an indication that the law by itself is not the problem. It is a question of enforcing these laws and making sure that those who violate are held accountable. In India itself a state like Kerala or Tamil Nadu is much better off than say Bihar or Uttar Pradesh although the criminal laws are the same. It again goes back to law enforcement and the ability of the people to hold their governments accountable.

I do agree that some of the Maoist problems will go away if they get their basic rights. But lack of basic rights should not be used as an excuse to commit heinous crimes against others. India is full of poor people and the vast majority of them do not take up arms against the government and kill people or bomb trains. The tribal people of north west India have been clearly taken advantage of by the leftist mafia.

I am not here to teach history to anyone here, but the point is this Police Act is still exist in its original form made by British.
Now recently during BJP govt in Rajasthan, they decided to open Liqour shops in every village, to whihc farmer opposed and demanded water to drink, to do farming etc. to which Govt of Rajasthan use guns against agitating farmers , 22 farmers killed, numerous rapes by police, but since laws are in favour of those who made it, common people are bound to suffer. They suffered durinn British Raj and they would continue to suffer even now, as none of the 34735 laws have been scrapped (suggested by Mahatma Gandhiji)

Land acquisition Act was also the ploy to remain in power for thousands of the years.
How, here it goes..
During British Rule out of 20 Crore indians, 10 crores where Farmers. Farmers, Teachers are community which was the main targets for British as these people were against British Rule and leading the Freedom Movements.
So this Land Acquisition Act discussed in House of Commons in UK, and got approval from then Queen of UK. This law say that whosoever does not have land papers to prove the land ownership, has to surrender their land to British Govt. They snatched land from Farmers to weaken their freedom struggle. Impose their education system to weaken our own education system to weaken the Freedom movement. I really appreciate, that British planned there act using new laws in India.
Due to this law today we have got labour class built over the period of time, who were originally farmers.
This is just two laws I discussed, if you go in depth of all the laws made by british, you would be amazed to know the planning part of British, but thanks to Civil Disobiedience, Baycott lead by Gandhiji and the Voilent way of dealing by Shahid Bhagat singh, Netaji Subhash and many more countless freedom fighter, britishers have to left india, but then British make sure that Nehru would continue their legacy who believe whatever comes from West are Best..

Maoist would be vanished if all the indians gets their basic rights of sustained food, shelter, laws which protect civilian rights and self respect to say the least.