Citizens for Justice and Peace
A Candle for Ankit ... and his lost love and a flickering secularism. A worrying silence echoes in the public sphere.
08-Feb-2018
It was an act of violence and terror, albeit of a critically different kind. When 23-year-old Ankit Saxena’s throat was slit after an altercation with the family members of his childhood sweetheart a few days ago, while the usual suspects of the BJP, Manoj Tiwari, and the Bajrang Dal swung into pre-scripted, hate-driven action, a…
Kausalya’s Courageous Fight for Justice Woman takes own family to court for Dalit husband's murder
15-Dec-2017
On December 13, the Tirupur Principal District and Sessions Judge Alamelu Natarajan pronounced death penalty for six accused convicted in V Shankar murder case last year in Coimbatore. This includes the father of Kausalya and other conspirators. Her mother and distant uncle have been acquitted. It is, perhaps, the first case where a judge has handed out exemplary punishment…