Citizens for Justice and Peace
Gulberg Sentence: Survivors say Life over Death
17-Jun-2016
Credit:AFP, Sam Panthaky UPDATE: Today, June 17 is the day that final judgement will be delivered in the Gulberg Society Massacre. Witness Survivors have filed detailed Written Arguments making a strong case for life sentence. The advocates for the survivors, backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) have also ,ade out a strong case…
Salaams and Salutes to the Witness-Survivors of Gulberg Society as We Wait for Justice: Advocate SM Vohra
17-Jun-2016
UPDATE: Today, June 17 is the day that final judgement will be delivered in the Gulberg Society Massacre. Witness Survivors have filed detailed Written Arguments making a strong case for life sentence. The advocates for the survivors, backed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) have also ,ade out a strong case for Compensation under…
Special Court Convicts 24 of 66 Accused, Acquits 36 Others in Gulberg Society Massacre Case
03-Jun-2016
Photo credit: Indian Express Delivering its verdict in the Gulberg Society massacre case in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002, a Special Trial Court today convicted 24 of the 66 accused while 36 others were given the benefit of doubt and acquitted. Of the 24 convicted, 11 have been held guilty of serious offences including murder,…
Incriminating Video Transcripts Yet Untested as Evidence
01-Jun-2016
While the nation agitates over the authenticity or otherwise of Videos aired by private television channels pinning blame on students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for allegedly raising “anti-national” slogans on February 9, 2016, certain Video Transcripts tested for their authenticity by a Special Order of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) dated March…
Judgement in Gulberg Society trial to be pronounced on June 2
25-May-2016
Photo credit: Zee News Special Judge PB Desai will pronounce judgement in the famed Gulberg Society Trial on June 2, 2016. The trial that began in September 2009 was stayed for a few months after Special PP, RK Shah quit in February 2010 making serious allegations against both the sitting judge and officers of the…
Gujarat 2002: The CM Supported the VHP during the Riots to get Hindu Votes, says Former Home Secretary
25-May-2016
Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up, is a racy memoir of reporting undercover in Modi’s Gujarat. Rana Ayyub, formerly with Tehelka, posed as ‘Maithili Tyagi’, a USA-born filmmaker and interviewed key figures in the state, including senior police officers. Tehelka’s first such sting by Ashish Khetan, Operation Kalank, has been used as valuable evidence in key…
Super cop Julio Ribeiro challenges Pandey’s appointment as DGP Gujarat
29-Apr-2016
Should a Cop Charged with Serious Crimes be appointed to the highest police position in the state? No says top cop Julio Ribeiro who has challenged the appointment of PP Pandey as acting DGP Gujarat Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turns its back on its own charge sheet in the famed Sohrabuddin…
The Importance of the Zakia Jafri Petition Hearings to Resume on April 6-7, 2016
11-Mar-2016
Hearings in the Zakia Jafri Criminal Revision Application will resume after many months on April 6-7, 2016. The Gujarat High Court (HC) passed this Order yesterday, on March 10, 2016 In April 2013, after first filing a complaint with the Director General of Police (DGP) Gujarat, Zakia Ahsan Jafri, assisted by the Citizens for Justice…
The End of Impunity: Gujarat 2002
28-Feb-2016
Photo Credit: Binita Desai The struggle of man (or woman) against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting: Milan Kundera It was not simply the number of lives lost,though the number perhaps 2500 is not insignificant. It was the cold-blooded manner in which they were taken. It was not simply that 19 of…
Destroying the evidence: time-tested tactic that protects powerful perpetrators
11-Feb-2016
Kin of the victims of the Hashimpura massacre in Meerut (Left) Zakia Jafri (Right) Nine years after the massacre of young Muslims in Hashimpura, allegedly by the members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), in arguably India’s largest incident of custodial killing, where officers of the notorious Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) shot dead 42 persons…