Citizens for Justice and Peace
Clean Chit to Rahul Sharma: CAT
29-Jan-2016
CAT declares the charge sheet against Rahul Sharma by the Gujarat home department to be an action “tainted by mischief and coloured by malafide” even as the Gujarat Home department issues one more notice against him Disregarding and unmindful of a severe reprimand from the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that quashed the charge sheet filed…
zakia-jafri-case-2010
06-Jan-2016
Dereliction of duty January 6, 2010 How Gujarat’s top cops deserted residents of Gulberg Society CP Pande: Curfew was declared in the Meghaninagar area (where the Gulberg Society) is located at 12.54 pm on February 28 according to the police control room (PCR) records. By then, according to the PCR record logged at 12.38…
Days of Agony and Despair: former DGP, Gujarat, RB Sreekumar on How the Mob Ruled during the Gujarat Carnage of 2002
29-Dec-2015
“While it is necessary to keep alive good deeds, it is also essential to destroy wicked people.” Yajurveda, 20/25[1] The poisoner, the incendiary, The robber, and who so ever commits assault With lethal weapon, and the ravisher, And one who tries by force to oust from land These should be slain unhesitatingly (Mahabharata) – quoted…
Arguments in Zakia Jafri case implicating top netas, cops and babus in 2002 carnage to conclude tomorrow in Gujarat HC
27-Apr-2013
The tortuous round of proceedings in the famed Zakia Jafri case wound down to the final arguments today, April 27 in the Gujarat High Court; after tomorrow it’s the Day of Judgement The Zakia Jafri case is an attempt to establish criminal and administrative responsibility for the mass and targeted crimes that took place in…
Application in the Supreme Court Highlighting the Inadequacies in the SIT Investigation
29-Mar-2011
Advocate for the victims and witnesses in the Gulberg Society Massacre case, S M Vohra, has filed a detailed application urging the Trial Court to order the SIT (Special Investigation Team) appointed by the Supreme Court to rectify the loopholes in evidence brought on record in this case. The application details how under provisions of…
SIT and Survivors
01-May-2010
Police officials from Gujarat deputed by the SIT to conduct further investigations, showed a marked hostility to eye–witnesses and cross-examined them as if they were defence counsel rather than an investigating team recording the statements of key eyewitnesses, statements that would be crucial in the subsequent prosecution. This attitude was objected to in writing by…
Two sets of 161 statements recorded
15-Mar-2010
The First set of 161 statements recorded by SIT officials in May-June 2008 at its specially appointed premises in Gandhinagar. Four months later the investigating officer (IO), JM Suthar, appointed by Ashish Bhatia, summoned some of the witnesses to another location, the Special Operations Group (SOG) office in Juhapura. Complaints were made to higher echelons…
Gulberg Society Victims Demand Transfer of Trial, Allege Judge’s Bias
26-Jan-2010
Gulberg Society victims demand transfer of trial, allege Judge’s bias Some witnesses and victims of the Gulberg Society communal riots massacre in 2002 have demanded transfer of the trial from the special court of Judge B.U. Joshi, alleging a “bias” in favour of the accused. A transfer petition was subsequently filed in the court of…
Witnesses Statement- Jafri did call Modi for help during riots
05-Nov-2009
Witnesses Statement- Jafri did call Modi for help during riots (November 2009) An eyewitness in the 2002 Gulberg massacre case told the fast-track court, that while his house was under attack by rioters, Congress leader Ehsan Jafri did indeed make a phone call to Chief Minister Narendra Modi for help only to be abused. The…
SIT Forced to Submit Police Records in Gulberg Case
07-Oct-2009
SIT forced to submit police records in Gulberg Case, phone records of 3 accused missing (October 7, 2009) – Press Release by CJP Despite finally producing the missing evidence after being directed by a special Court, the SIT’s dossier still doesn’t account for all the evidence. The mobile phone records of all three accused, Madan Chawal, Prahlad…