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Issues With Legal Representation For Surviving Mumbai Attacks Suspect

divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Obtaining /span/spana href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7783818.stm"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"l/span/span/span/aspan style="line-height: 18px;"a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7783818.stm"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"ega/span/span/span/a/spanspan style="line-height: 18px;"a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7783818.stm"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"l representation/span/span/span/aspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" for Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab has become a challenge for the Indian authorities.The sole surviving Mumbai attacks suspect is having trouble finding a lawyer to represent him in court. So far, two lawyers turned his case down and a 1,000-strong lawyers' association says none of its members will act for him.nbsp;Furthermore, lawyers that even suggest representing Qasab are being threatened.nbsp;/span/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdivspan style="line-height: 18px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"span style="line-height: 18px;"/span/span/spanbr / span style="line-height: 18px;"div class="first" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"When Mr Qasab's remand was extended for two weeks, a lawyer approached by the legal aid panel refused to appear for him.nbsp;Dinesh Mota said he refused on moral grounds.nbsp;"I said even if I lose my licence to practise, I will not represent him. I feel as if he has killed my family members. It was an attack on my family when he opened fire on Indians at CST station."/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdiv class="first" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"A similar situation occurred after the /span/spana href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/11/mumbai.blasts/index.html"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"July 2006 Mumbai train bombings/span/span/span/aspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;", when local politician, Raj Thackeray, threatened lawyers not to take up the cases of the accused.nbsp;/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"P/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"A Sebastian, of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights stated,nbsp;"No lawyer can be forced to take up the matter. At the same time there should be no resolutions by lawyers' bodies dissuading advocates from taking up this case. Any campaigning against him would be against the principle of the Indian judicial system."/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Indian law mandates that any accused - Indian or foreign - is entitled to free legal aid if no practicing private lawyer represents him, or if the accused cannot afford the court fees. This is a constitutional right of any accused who has committed an alleged crime on Indian soil./span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Qasab's remand comes up for further extension on December 24th.nbsp;/span/span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Source: /span/spana href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7783818.stm"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"BBC NEWS/span/span/span/a/div/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span /divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'times new roman';"span style="font-size: medium;"br / /span/span/divdiv/div pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=gKu53k"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=gKu53k" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=1nyHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=1nyHO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=y59Ho"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=y59Ho" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=lacLO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=lacLO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=K0TNo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=K0TNo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=d8XBO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=d8XBO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=u9ADo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=u9ADo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=hFuDO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=hFuDO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?a=LJp9o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch?i=LJp9o" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fastcase-AcceleratedLegalResearch/~4/487325143" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Fastcase Legal News on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).