Mumbai: The family of IIT alumnus Vikram
Buddhi, who has been awarded a jail term in the US for posting
hate messages against former President George W Bush, today
said he will appeal against the sentence and alleged that the
trial went on without a valid charge.
"He is going to appeal and the essential point is the
arbitrary ways in which the whole prosecution started during
Bush regime and continued in (Barack) Obama`s time. The charge
does not have even a whisper of internet messages," Buddhi`s
father Subba Rao said.
Buddhi was today sentenced to four years and nine months
in prison and an additional three years of supervised release
by a US court for posting hate messages in 2006 against Bush
and calling for bombings of American infrastructure.
The 38-year-old PhD student of Purdue University was
arrested in 2006 for allegedly making threats to Bush, the
then Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives.
Buddhi`s father alleged that the court was "acting
arbitrarily".
"The whole thing is fishy but I do not know what is
really happening," Rao said.
PTI
