Citizens for Justice and Peace
NBDSA orders News Nation to take down video of “Conversion Jihad” show CJP had complained about blatant vilification of the minority community in the programme
18-Nov-2021
In yet another victory for Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has ordered News Nation to take down all videos of its show on “Conversion Jihad”. This was in response to a complaint by CJP drawing attention to the deeply communal and outright Islamophobic content of the…
Only SC can bring to life the cold print of the Constitution: Sibal in Zakia Jafri SLP Lack of preventive action, hurried post mortems at Godhra raised during Nov 17 hearings
18-Nov-2021
November 17 marked the sixth day of the hearing in the Zakia Jafri-CJP Special leave petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar. Senior Counsel Mr. Kapil Sibal appearing for both petitioners, Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) through its secretary Teesta Setalvad, continued…
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…
These matters should not be forgiven or forgotten: NHRC report revisited during Zakia Jafri SLP hearing SIT turned a blind eye to reports of Constitutional, statutory bodies
17-Nov-2021
The hearing on November 16 in the Zakia Jafri Special Leave Petition (SLP), largely dealt with how contemporaneous evidence at the disposal of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was also ignored and overlooked leading to miscarriage of justice. Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), through its secretary Teesta Setalvad, is the second petitioner in the…
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…
Gujarat riots: Collaborators later rewarded, victim’s wife tells SC The Telegraph
12-Nov-2021
Zakia Jafri’s husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was burnt alive with 68 others in Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society Officials who “collaborated” in the 2002 Gujarat violence or in the scuttling of a probe into the possible role of VIPs were later rewarded, a riot victim’s wife told the Supreme Court on Thursday. R.K. Raghavan,…
‘No investigation, but an effort to protect the bureaucracy’: Kapil Sibal in Zakia Jafri hearing newslaundry.com
11-Nov-2021
Today was the fourth day of the Supreme Court hearing of a petition filed by Zakia, the widow of Congress MLA Ehsan Jafri, pertaining to the Gujarat riots case. The Supreme Court today continued hearing a petition filed by Zakia Ahsan Jafri, the widow of Congress MLA Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the Gujarat…
Unbiased investigation is umbilical cord connecting CrPC to Article 21: Kapil Sibal in Zakia Jafri SLP Complicity of police officers, appointment of favorable public prosecutors brought forth
11-Nov-2021
On November 11, the hearing continued in the Zakia Jafri Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar. The petitioners, Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ahsan Jafri, and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), are being represented by Senior Advocate Mr Kapil…
[Zakia Jafri petition] Communal violence like lava from volcano, I lost my grandparents to it: Kapil Sibal to Supreme Court barandbench.com
11-Nov-2021
Sibal, however, maintained that he does not want to accuse anyone and a message has to go that violence in the name of religion will not be tolerated. Communal violence is an institutionalised problem and is like lava from a volcano which breeds revenge, Congress leader Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal told the Supreme Court on…
Gujarat Riots – No Appeal Filed Against Maya Kodnani’s Acquittal; VHP Persons Appointed Prosecutors In Many Cases : Kapil Sibal Tells Supreme Court Live Law
11-Nov-2021
On Wednesday, to demonstrate the lack of proper investigation by the SIT in the Gujarat riots conspiracy case, Mr. Kapil Sibal pointed out to the Supreme Court that SIT has not challenged the Gujarat High Court’s decision to acquit Maya Kodnani, former BJP MLA from Naroda, who was identified as the ‘kingpin’ in the Naroda…