A vindictive tool

Sir, - The POTO would put democracy in peril. People like Fitzmann Stephen, who drafted the Evidence Act, had the wisdom to include a provision which said confession to police was not admissible. Already there are reports of police excesses and the new law would become a tool for vindictive acts.

Though the TADA had been repealed, the fate of the people already booked under it is not known. The Government must make the statistics public before going in for a new law to counter terrorism.

S.S. Venkat Subramanian,

Chennai

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