This small handout, both in Hindi and English, talks about the 50th Amendment Bill, presented in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in 1988. The manner in which this bill was presented clearly shows unconcerned attitude of the state towards citizen’s fundamental rights to life. This kind of attempt was not even made during Indira Gandhi’s emergency regime. The provisions of this current bill even go against the stated objective of crushing terrorism in Punjab. This bill seeks to reverse the 44th Amendement introduced by Janata government which disallowed the proclamation of Emergency on the grounds of “internal disturbance”. Not only this the current 59th Amendment also seeks to modify the Article 359 which guarantees that Article 20 and 21 could not be suspended even under Emergency. So in nutshell the fundamental rights of the people of Punjab except article 20, stand suspended.

This pamphlet is both in English and Hindi. To download click below
right-to-kill.pdf