Citizens for Justice and Peace
Lack of Witnesses Protection Derailing Justice in Sohrabuddin case? Over 90 Hostile Witnesses and One Dead Judge, cry out for major Criminal Justice Reforms
20-Dec-2018
What the trial in the case of alleged extra-judicial killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi has taught us, is that there is an urgent need for witness protection in criminal cases where powerful perpetrators often have the ability to change the outcome of the trial in their own favour. What started with…
List of Encounters in Gujarat
31-May-2017
Ishrat Jahan Encounter
01-Oct-2009
October 1, 2009 Mail Today IB officer fed Vanjara with ‘inputs’ on Ishrat By D. P. Bhattacharya in Ahmedabad THE Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case is getting murkier with former police officers and human rights groups questioning the role of an Intelligence Bureau official in the extra- judicial killings in Gujarat post- October 2002. This comes in the…
Times of India interview
16-Sep-2009
The Times of India September 16, 2009 Q&A ‘The crux is politicisation of the policeÂ’ Former Punjab DGP JulioRibeiro has often spoken out against fake encounters, but acknowledges that they took place when he was Mumbai police commissioner in the early 1980s. He talks to Jyoti Punwani about this practice: Are you shocked at the revelations about the Ishrat…
More encounters in Guj than in Naxal-hit states
09-Sep-2009
DNA India September 9, 2009 ‘More encounters in Guj than in Naxal-hit states’ Retd DGP RB Sreekumar says the killings in the state were staged DNA Correspondent Throwing open the floodgates of angst and frustration, retired director general of police RB Sreekumar spoke his mind on the fake encounters issue. Highlighting that Gujarat has witnessed more encounters in five years…