Human rights activist Binayak Sen, who is on bail from the Supreme court, on Tuesday said he is still to be absolved of the sedition charges and is not certain will he remain out of jail.
"I have been merely granted bail and not absolved of the charges. The case is still pending at Chhattisgarh High Court. The Supreme Court only granted bail to me as it observed that no case was made out for charges of sedition," Sen said at a function.
He said he was convicted "for working for the people of my own country... though prosecution had no proof against us."
"I am not certain if I will be sent to jail again," Sen said. Touching upon the course of events that led to his arrest and punishment, Sen said "sedition is the top of all crimes under the Indian Penal Code and I was awarded it."
However, it was his resolve, he said, to fight back as he had worked all his life for the betterment of the poor.
Referring to the malnutrition in India, Sen, a noted paediatrician, quoted statistics from the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau and said a large portion of the population was "chronically on the brink of famine".
Sen, popular among the villagers of Chhattisgarh for social work, said as per the Body Mass Index, 37 per cent of the adult population in India suffered from chronic malnutrition.
"47 per cent children below five years are facing the same chronic undernourishment and malnourishment and it is extremely alarming for the future generation of the nation.
"Among the Scheduled Castes, the BMI is below 18.5 and a large-scale minority population suffer from the malady," he said.
Sen was in West Bengal to spend some days with his mother Anusua Sen and wife Ilina in Nadia district.
Sen who has been selected by the Centre to be part of the Planning Commission's Steering Committee on Health, said he would return to Delhi soon.
