Supreme Court takes dig at the state government

"Can a person possessing a book on Mahatma Gandhi be called a Gandhian?" was how the Supreme Court took a dig at the Chhattisgarh government for dubbing rights activist Binayak Sen (pictured)u00a0 as a hard core Naxalite merely for possessing pamphlets of CPI Maoist.



"Is it that if someone has got the autobiography of Gandhi at his home he will be called a Gandhian? Is that your logic that having documents and pamphlets on Maoists and Naxalites at his (Sen's) house (makes him an outlaw)?" a bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad said.

The remarks were made by the bench when senior advocate UU Lalit, appearing for Chhattisgarh government, was referring to the material and answering a volley of questions to butress that Sen has deep links with the rebels and he was spreading the base of CPI-Maoist in the country.u00a0