Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
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…
No court with a conscience would ignore such evidence: Kapil Sibal argues in Zakia Jafri SLP Key instances of SIT ignoring evidence and failing to question those responsible, were highlighted today
10-Nov-2021
On November 10, the Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar continued to hear the arguments made by Senior Advocate Mr. Kapil Sibal in connection with the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ahsan Jafri, and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP). In…
The Importance of Zakia Jafri’s Protest Petition EPW
30-Oct-2021
It is not often that the battle against aggressive communalism, the sustained mobilization that precedes brute and targeted violence and includes hate speech and hate writing, the deliberate debilitation and paralysis of preventive and pro active measures of law and order that minimize the spread of reprisal violence and protect lives and properties, gets sustained…
Gujarat Violence: Why Zakia Jafri Wants the SC to Look Into SIT’s Clean Chit to Modi, Others The Wire
28-Oct-2021
All the evidence on a ‘larger conspiracy’ submitted to the SIT merited a thorough probe, the petitioners argue, yet a closure report was filed without proper investigation. Zakia Jafri. Photo: PTI/Files New Delhi: Appearing before the Supreme Court, Zakia Jafri’s lawyer Kapil Sibal has been arguing that the special investigation team’s closure report into whether…
SIT Investigation flawed, evidence of serious lapses by state functionaries ignored: Zakia Jafri & CJP argue in SC SC will continue hearing the matter on November 10
28-Oct-2021
Senior counsel Kapil Sibal continued to argue the Zakia Jafri matter today, on October 27, before the Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar. Zakia Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace, have challenged the closure report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) pertaining to the complaint of June 8, 2006,…
Zakia Jafri SLP: All we want is an investigation, argues senior counsel Kapil Sibal SC has started hearing CJP’s Special Leave Petition since October 26
27-Oct-2021
On October 26, the Supreme Court began hearing a Special Leave Petition filed by Zakia Ahsan Jafri and Citizens for Justice and Peace. Zakia Jafri is the wife of slain congress leader Ahsan Jafri who was brutally murdered in the Gulberg massacre of 2002. Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioners highlighted the main…