<p>"When an advocate of the stature of Ram Jethmalani has offered his professional help to defend Sen, it proves that there are flaws in the verdict," the activist's 84-year-old ailing mother Anasua Sen said here in Nadia district.<br /><br />"It is a matter of great luck for me. I am grateful to him (Jethmalani)," she said.<br /><br />If Sen seeks his professional assistance, "I will do it for him. I will be very happy to fight for him.... Personally, I think the case is weak. I think Sen has been wrongly convicted." Jethmalani had said in New Delhi yesterday.<br /><br />However, "which lawyer would appear to fight for my son will be decided by his wife Ilina and other members of our family in Raipur," Anasua added.<br /><br />Ilina too expressed happiness over Jethmalani's offer, but could not immediately confirm whether the veteran lawyer's assistance would be sought.<br /><br />"I am happy for his intention but I have to discuss the issue with others as I have given the case to other lawyers already," she told PTI over phone from Raipur.<br /><br />Ilina said they would move the High Court after January 3 against the trial court verdict.<br />Sen, Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata-based businessman Piyush Guha were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Raipur court on December 24 for sedition and colluding with Maoists to establish a network to fight the state.<br /><br />58-year-old Sen, a paediatrician by training, had been accused by the prosecution of carrying messages and letters from Sanyal to Maoists. Guha was also found involved in helping Maoists establish a network.<br /><br />Binayak, an activist of the People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested on May 14, 2007 from Bilaspur.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>"When an advocate of the stature of Ram Jethmalani has offered his professional help to defend Sen, it proves that there are flaws in the verdict," the activist's 84-year-old ailing mother Anasua Sen said here in Nadia district.<br /><br />"It is a matter of great luck for me. I am grateful to him (Jethmalani)," she said.<br /><br />If Sen seeks his professional assistance, "I will do it for him. I will be very happy to fight for him.... Personally, I think the case is weak. I think Sen has been wrongly convicted." Jethmalani had said in New Delhi yesterday.<br /><br />However, "which lawyer would appear to fight for my son will be decided by his wife Ilina and other members of our family in Raipur," Anasua added.<br /><br />Ilina too expressed happiness over Jethmalani's offer, but could not immediately confirm whether the veteran lawyer's assistance would be sought.<br /><br />"I am happy for his intention but I have to discuss the issue with others as I have given the case to other lawyers already," she told PTI over phone from Raipur.<br /><br />Ilina said they would move the High Court after January 3 against the trial court verdict.<br />Sen, Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata-based businessman Piyush Guha were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Raipur court on December 24 for sedition and colluding with Maoists to establish a network to fight the state.<br /><br />58-year-old Sen, a paediatrician by training, had been accused by the prosecution of carrying messages and letters from Sanyal to Maoists. Guha was also found involved in helping Maoists establish a network.<br /><br />Binayak, an activist of the People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested on May 14, 2007 from Bilaspur.<br /><br /><br /></p>