Lawyer barred from seeing Chaubey

Lawyer barred from seeing Chaubey

MEDAN: Irham Buana Nasution, the lawyer of Ayodhya Prasad
Chaubey, a drug dealer on death row, threatened on Wednesday to
file a lawsuit against two government officials for barring him
from seeing his client. The two officials in question were the
chief of the North Sumatra Prosecutor's Office and the warden of
Tanjung Gusta Penitentiary. That was the third time his request
had been rejected in the last three weeks.

The rejection is in violation of Law No. 8 under the Criminal
Code, which rules that convicts or suspects can make contact with
their lawyers at any time. Chaubey, an Indian national is
awaiting imminent execution, after his appeal for clemency was
rejected by President Megawati. -- JP