Citizens for Justice and Peace
90 year old Koch Rajbongshi lady Moyna Devi is a suspected foreigner Goti
03-Jul-2021
That is called irony of fate. Once she was the most beautiful lady in the village. She is now 90 years old. Now she has to prove her citizenship. Her villagers were started to call her ‘Devi’ for her beauty. Ninety-year-old Moyna Devi has to pay compensation for her name being changed in government documents.…
91-year-old Assam woman declared D Voter, served notice to prove her Indian Citizenship Inside NE
03-Jul-2021
91-year-old Moyna Barman, who was declared a doubtful voter (D Voter) in the year 2007, has served notice to appear before a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) to prove her ‘citizenship’ of India. According to Barman, she lived in the riverine regions of Dhubri district along the Indo-Bangladesh border area all her life. She informed that she…
Beauty and the bumbling Beast of Bureaucracy A nonagenarian is forced to defend her citizenship!
26-Jun-2021
Moyna Barman, a Koch Rajbongshi woman in her 90s, was once the village belle. So much so that people started calling her Devi meaning goddess or angel in light of her divine looks, and that’s how her name got distorted in official records. Now the unlettered woman, who belongs to a community that is seen among the…
Joyful tears and lingering questions: Four inmates released from Assam Detention Camps 41 detainees have returned home till now upon CJP’s direct intervention
07-Jun-2021
From a Dalit woman in her sixties to a mother snatched away from her children. From a Bengali Hindu man unable to navigate the complex legal procedures to a father separated from his daughter. Here’s how CJP’s team in Assam secured release of four detainees lodged at different detention camps in Assam, after completing all…
State government wants 100% re-verification of NRC Dainik Janmabhumi
20-May-2021
Shortly after being sworn in, the new State Government under the leadership of Chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sharma has filed a petition in the Supreme Court for reverification of NRC. The State Government has requested the Supreme Court to order a complete reverification of NRC within a limited time by mentioning multiple inconsistencies. On…
Amala Das returned home after spending two years and four days in detention camp Bartalipi
17-May-2021
Detention camps will be demolished if we come to power. And those Bangladeshis who are here, they should be ready to go to the other side. This is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the 2014 election campaign. His party has come to power twice in a row. Far from demolishing detention camps, the…
FT Notices pasted on electric poles, CJP petitions Assam authorities Pasting notice for appearance in public places is against due process
07-May-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has approached the Deputy Commissioner, Bongaigaon, Principal Secretary to the Government of Assam and Superintendent of Police (Border) with a memorandum to take cognisance of some instances where Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) notices are not being duly served upon the noticee/proceedee and are instead, pasted on electricity poles in Bongaigaon.…
It’s the need of hour to accept the NRC with some errors Niyamiya Barta
26-Apr-2021
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the result of the non stop process of the last decade. Though it has some errors, it’s not completely wrong. Therefore, the Assam Public Works (APW) main petitioner, who filed petition regarding the updation of NRC has urged to accept the NRC which has been published under the…
CJP Assam stands firm in its fight against citizenship crisis We are providing legal and paralegal aid to those tormented by the system
14-Apr-2021
CJP has been relentlessly reaching out and helping every Indian Citizen fighting the Citizenship Crisis in Assam. From freeing those wrongly jailed in Inhumane Detention Camps of Assam to those falsely accused of being a ‘Foreigner’, we are providing paralegal and legal aid to every single person, who is tormented by the system. CJP will…
EXCLUSIVE: Foreigners’ Tribunal notices pasted on electricity poles in Assam! CJP finds several such notices across Bongaigaon; widespread panic among people
12-Apr-2021
Though assembly elections have ended in Assam, with the conclusion of the third phase on April 6, 2021, the politics over citizenship issue continues, with fresh panic being created in the form of Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) notices, that were found pasted on several electricity poles in Bongaigaon by the Assam team of Citizens for Justice…