 The background is, they are talking about corporate social responsibility, they are talking about modernity, development, growth, 21st century, all these, but the most reactionary practices, they are carried out in the most modern industries, automobile, auto-anncillary, the old automobile industries, some of them are reconciled to the trade unions. Even there, there were fights, then only they recognized, but collective bargaining is in vogue, in the old automobile sector, but malathi, prickar, fundai, here these people, they are not prepared to accept democracy, particularly democracy for workers. Unions of one's choice, see this is a stage wherein the constitution is undermined by the present regime, the constitution it guarantees right to organize, right to form associations, right to freedom of expression, the Indian Act is there, international covenants are signed, they all say you've got a right to form a union of your choice, but malathi doesn't accept it, fundai doesn't accept it, prickar did not accept it, that is why there were big struggles, the whole struggle had they accepted the union of the workers choice, things would not have gone to this level. Ultimately what happened was workers, they fought back, they said we've got every right to organize, we've got every right to form a union of our choice, we've got every right to demand way settlement. See what happened was in the prickar, more than 40 cases were filed, even women workers they were sent to jail, workers were sent to jail on different occasions in different cases, hundreds of workers were terminated, whatever is possible in the manual of the management, if there is a torture manual, if there is an unfair level practice manual, whatever item is there, they have practiced it against the workers in prickar, but the thing that is very important for the Indian working class, for the people at large is these workers did not take it lying down, they fought back and ultimately they forced the management to accept them, but somehow the management wanted to teach a lesson to the workers, that is why they framed murder case against 27, including 4 women, including outside leaders, this is the background in which the prickar case came up, it has got significance, because prickar even after the murder case, even after the high court verdict and other things, the workers are still holding on to their larger battles, see prickar workers, there is an agrarian crisis throughout India, the agrarian crisis is acute in Tamil Nadu also, there was a series of deaths in Tamil Nadu, then the whole of society was concerned about it and there was a general strike in solidarity with the toiling peasants of Tamil Nadu, prickar workers they were warned, if you go on strike you will face a penal deduction of 8 days wage cut, they said fine, we don't bother, we will go with the toiling peasants, they went on a strike and they were deducted with 8 days penal wage cut, they are fighting, their battle is going on, the battle for trade union democracy, the battle for democracy at large in India, workers and their unions taking a social role, I think in that context the struggle of prickar workers is important for the entire trade union movement, see this is happening in Marathi, this is happening in every place, prickar workers what they are doing is instead of confining themselves within their factory to their problems, they are trying to reach out to all sections of people who are fighting and they are trying to link themselves with the broad democratic movement in the country, I think that is the overall significance of prickar sugar, prickar case assumes importance in the background of a big turmoil that is taking place in India's topmost court, actually four senior judges of the Supreme Court, they have said that the independence of the judiciary is compromised and that democracy is facing a peril, actually they said something about lawyer's case, basically lawyer's case is related to Swarapuddin's case, now today I saw Justice Thipsey saying that bail should not have been given to the accused, he is very categorical, this is a case where there is prima facie evidence and bail should not have been granted at all, even criticizes the Supreme Court for granting bail in some instances, and he questions the discharge of many accused when there is sufficient evidence against them, see when this happens to Amit Shah what happens to the workers is something very different, in prickar actually eight workers they were sentenced to double life imprisonment by the sessions court, out of them they preferred an appeal, the I court said that there is not clinching evidence against the accused, on the contrary the I court said that the prosecution's case is bristling its contradictions and they have not proved the charges at all, but in spite of that when the matter came up before the Supreme Court, it is really strange that for seven of the workers they have ordered notice in the SLP filed by the complainant, in the case of people, two workers who were sentenced to life imprisonment and who were in jail from 3rd December 2015, they have dismissed the SLP, this they should not have done, at least the least that they could have done is, they could have ordered notice, I am not even saying they should have admitted, they could have ordered notice while they are ordering notice in the case of seven workers who have been acquitted, in the case of two workers who have been sentenced, they should have ordered notice, they should have scanned the entire evidence and then come to some decision or other, but instead of that, at the threshold stage itself, they have thrown out the case, this is something they ought not have done, on this issue, ASCTU, it has launched an international campaign asking the Chief Justice of India to review the matter, actually legal judicial review as per Supreme Court rules, that is one aspect, that is another aspect, in the case of AR Antulay, the Supreme Court has said long back that whenever any injustice has been meted out to any citizen of India, the court has got inherent powers to correct the wrong that has been done to any Indian individual, we are saying this is a case where at least you should have decided to hear it, that is where you are wrong, therefore you, what have you, I think more than one lakh people have put their signatures to this petition in Tamil Nadu, throughout India the signature campaign is going on, love parties, love trade union leaders, democratic personalities, progressive forces, in all fields of life they have signed up this petition, very soon we are going to hand over these signatures to the Chief Justice of India and then we intend to file a review petition in the Supreme Court.