Monday, August 7, 2011: The CPM in Kerala has come down heavily on the UDF Government for allowing former minister and Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai, jailed in a graft case, to undergo treatment in a super speciality hospital in the city.
Shifting of Pillai from the Central Prison to the hospital amounted to “challenging the rule of law,” the CPM state secretariat said in a statement. It was true that a civilized society was expected to give humanitarian treatment to prisoners. But in Pillai’s case, the medical team did not convincingly suggest he was in need of specialized treatment for some serious illness, the statement said.
Pillai, 76, was sentenced to one year imprisonment in February last by the Apex Court in a case pertaining to corruption in construction of the tunnel of a hydroelectric project, dating to the 1980s when he was a Power minister.
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