Citizens for Justice and Peace
Press Release: Twelfth Day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
12-Aug-2013
Three serving officers of the Gujarat government in 2002 (Rahul Sharma, then SP Bhavnagar and DCP Crime Branch, Sanjiv Bhatt, then DCP-Int and RB Sreekumar, then ADGP-Int) provided internal, official yet independent information to indicate that a deliberate conspiracy was hatched by A-1 Narendra Modi to manipulate the Godhra incident to allow the statewide…
Press Release: Seventh day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
24-Jul-2013
The SIT, instead of functioning like a dispassionate investigating agency has gone out on a limb to disprove the presence for former MOS Revenue, Haren Pandya and former DCP-Int Sanjiv Bhatt at the law and order meeting that took place at A-1 Narendra ModiÂ’s residence on the late night of 27.2.2002 argued counsel for…
Zakia Jafri Media note June 2013
26-Jun-2013
Memorandum to Chief Minister of Maharashtra for Shaheen Dhada Case
05-Dec-2012
December 5, 2012 Press Release Memorandum to Chief Minister of Maharashtra for Shaheen Dhada Case A delegation of citizens from various organizations including Citizens for Justice and Peace Mumbai and change.org (with 21,537 signatures) met CM Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan to press for dropping of charges against Shaheen Dhada and Renu Srinivasan, compensation for the…
CJP Press Release on Zakia Jafri’s SLP
03-Dec-2012
CJP News Letter
01-Sep-2012
SC Issues Notice to Gujarat Govt. on Zakia Jafri case
29-Aug-2012
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Gujarat government and stayed Magistrate Ganatra’s order dated 27.11.2013 closing Zakia Jafri’s right to file a Protest Petition. Smt Zakia Jafri had, on 8.6.2006 filed a complaint alleging a sinister and wide level conspiracy to allow violence, deliberately subvert the strict directions to maintain order that led to the…
2002 Trials Struggle for Justice
23-Jul-2012
July 23, 2012 Press Release 2002 Trials Struggle for Justice The Citizens for Justice welcomes the conviction of five persons who were convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of two youth of the minority community on November 2, 2003 in a post 2002 communal flare-up at Viramgam near Ahmedabad. Twenty-eight other accused were…
CJP welcomes Gujarat HC decision to Admit Victim Witnesses Appeal
02-May-2012
The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) welcomes the decision of the Gujarat High Court to admit specifically the appeal filed by Victim Witnesses of the Sardarpura massacre in addition to the appeals filed by the state and the Special Investigation Team (SIT) last week. In fact the appeals filed by victim witnesses and supported…