The Union government is detaining the Rohingyas and plans to send them to the detention centres, but guess who will go to the Supreme Court to stop the detention? Well, he is the same person who went to the apex court of India at midnight to save terrorist Ajmal Kasab – Prashant Bhushan.
Prashant Bhushan has chosen to represent Mohammad Salimullah, a member of the Rohingya community who filed an application in the Supreme Court against the deportation of Rohingyas.
A few days ago, 150 Rohingyas were detained by the police for illegally residing in Jammu. Prashant Bhushan does not only wants their release but also a permanent residency for them in the country, as he has filed an application in the court on behalf of Mohammad Salimullah.
“This follows the Union Minister Jitendra Singh’s statements two months ago that the Rohingya (identified as Muslim refugees by the government) would not be able to secure citizenship. These refugees have been illegally detained and jailed in the Jammu sub-jail, which has been converted into a holding centre with the IGP (Jammu) Mukesh Singh stating that they face deportation back to Myanmar following verification by their embassy,” reads the application.
Bhushan’s application also urged the court to “release the detained Rohingya refugees immediately and direct the Union Territory government and the Ministry of Home Affairs to expeditiously grant refugee identification cards through the FRRO for the Rohingyas in the informal camps”.
Bhushan, who was seen as an anti-corruption crusader during the Anna movement, has fallen from the grace in the eyes of the public in the last few years. Be it shielding the illegal Rohingyas, or applying for the mercy of the then death row convict Yakub Memon, or even making mountains of a molehill on Rafale deal, Prashant Bhushan has done it all that qualifies him as an anti-national and anarchist.
People like Prashant Bhushan, the members of so-called civil society, often pressurise the government officials through RTI applications. Such activists have been found to be blackmailing the government officials through the RTI, and therefore, for many miscreants, RTI litigation has become a full-time job, which seems to them bread and butter without any hard work.
Successive CJIs have slammed Bhushan for his ‘PIL activism’ with CJI Bobde lamenting if RTI filing is becoming a profession. Even ex-Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi had rebuked Bhushan for his quest to make the SC pass unnecessary orders.
The threat posed to National security by the illegal Rohingyas is known to everyone, but people like Prashant Bhushan are trying to shield the population through judicial activism and op-eds in the left-liberal media establishment for mere recognition from International human rights groups. For Bhushan, personal interest has always taken precedent over national interest, and thus, he picks up the cases of the people who need to be punished to build a just society. Any person who believes in rule of law and wants the national interest to prevail would never defend the likes of Yakub Menon or the Rohingyas, but such acts are only expected from Prashant Bhushan.
