Citizens for Justice and Peace
All this material raises suspicion of offence: Petitioners in Zakia Jafri SLP SIT used sting op tapes in other trials but disregarded in closure report
09-Dec-2021
The Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar heard the final submissions of both the petitioners as well the respondents in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), where petitioners submitted evidence of how the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the…
They want all this material to be effaced from the nation’s memory: Petitioners in Zakia Jafri SLP Point out all material that required further investigation
09-Dec-2021
On December 8, the petitioners made their final submissions in the Zakia Jafri SLP hearing before the Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar and are likely to conclude today. Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, representing the petitioners, Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), made several submissions countering…
Zakia Jafri SLP: Were SIT’s acts of omission deliberate? Material indicating conspiracy presented before court
17-Nov-2021
“These are ‘deliberate’ acts of omission,” argued Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal referring to the role played by the court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), while arguing for Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) hearing before the Supreme Court. The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari…
Tehelka sting tapes containing crucial evidence ignored by SIT: Zakia Jafri to SC Tapes authenticated by CBI had right-wing leaders boasting about having bombs, communal conspiracy
12-Nov-2021
During the November 11 hearing of the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Zakia Jafri and CJP concerning the wider conspiracy behind the Gujarat riots of 2002, the petitioners presented before the Supreme Court substantial evidence to point out how the Special Investigation Team (SIT) ignored crucial evidence and elements that could have established conspiracy…
Secularism and the Constitution This piece was authored as a part of the Concerned Citizens Tribunal, Crimes Against Humanity, Gujarat 2002
30-Jun-2021
The preamble of our Constitution begins with the expression ‘We, the People of India’ and states that it is the ‘People’ who have resolved solemnly to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens, – JUSTICE social, economic and political; – LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; –…
Former Guj DGP moves HC, demands tabling of Part 2 of Nanavati Commission Report State finally agrees, report to be tabled in Budget Session
06-Sep-2019
Former Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar has moved Gujarat High Court demanding that the second part of the Nanavati Commission report be tabled before the Gujarat State Assembly so that its findings can become public. The Nanavati Commission was set up to look into the facts, circumstances and all the course of events…
#HateOffender: अमित शाह ने मुस्लिमों को ‘घुसपैठिये’ कहा क्या यही है भारतीय सभ्यता की पहचान?
07-May-2019
भारतीय सभ्यता हमेशा से विविध धर्मों, संस्कृतियों एवं परम्पराओं के समीकरण के रूप में पहचानी गई है। ऐसे में बीजेपी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह एक तरफ सिखों, हिंदुओं एवं बौद्ध धर्म के लोगों के लिए बाहें फैलाकर स्वागत कर रहे हैं, और दूसरी तरफ मुस्लिमों को घुसपैठिये कह कर भारतीय सभ्यता पर दाग़ लगा रहे हैं।…
Role of the Media: How Hate was Spread in 2002 in Gujarat Excerpts from the Concerned Citizens Tribunal Report, Crimes Against Humanity, Gujarat 2002
29-Jan-2019
The following piece that first appeared in the Nov Dec 2002 edition of Communalism Combat examines the role of media in spreading hate during the Gujarat 2002 communal carnage. The Tribunal recommends that all the recommendations made by the Editors’ Guild in its report on the Gujarat carnage be implemented. India; Rights and Wrongs the Editors…
‘मामला’ क्या है? तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ पर मुक़दमों की झड़ी का ख़ुलासा
14-Dec-2018
गुजरात दंगो में साज़िश की जांच के लिए ज़किया जाफ़री और तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ की अर्ज़ी जैसे ही सुप्रीम कोर्ट में पहुंची, गुजरात के विभिन्न न्यायालयों में तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ के खिलाफ चल रहे मामले उफान मारने लगे। लेकिन ऐसा पहली बार नहीं हो रहा है। किडनैपिंग से लेकर जालसाज़ी तक हर तरह के केस झेल चुकी…
तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ पर मुक़दमों की झड़ी का ख़ुलासा Coming Soon
04-Dec-2018
आखिर सरकार तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ पर इतनी मेहरबान क्यों है? क्यों करती रहती है मुक़दमों की पुष्प-वर्षा? हर अड़चनों को फलांद कर ज़किया जाफ़री के साथ तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ का सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक का सफर, केवल उड़ती ख़बर पर