Citizens for Justice and Peace
Media Reports on Zakia Jafri SLP
08-May-2017
Media Reports on Zakia Jafri SLP Zakia moves Supreme Court to protest SIT ‘inaction’ (The Hindu, Jan. 8, 2012) Amicus report lays the ground for chargesheeting Narendra Modi (Samachar.com, Oct. 24, 2011) ‘Book Gujarat cops for neglect during riots’ (The Indian Express, Oct. 23, 2011) Amicus report lays the ground for chargesheeting Narendra…
Anti-Muslim Violence in India: 15 Years Later, a Widow’s Chance to Receive Justice Zakia Jafri's complaint makes allegations against 62 government officials, police officers and private citizens.
28-Apr-2017
After the mass violence that shook Gujarat, India, in the early months of 2002, a shockingly high level of impunity caused Indian statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to make scathing indictments on the state executive’s malfeasance—which continues to be a festering sore for the majoritarian juggernaut that is the Narendra Modi…
Press Release: Zakia Jafri files Revision Application against Magistrate BJ Ganatra’s order
18-Mar-2014
Survivor of the 2002 carnage and widow of eminent Parliamentarian Smt Zakia Ahsan Jafri has filed a Criminal Revision Application before the Gujarat High Court challenging the Order of the Magistrate rejecting her Protest Petition seeking to arraign powerful accused Narendra Modi, chief minister Gujarat and 59 others on charges of criminal conspiracy, abetment…
Zakia Jafri Judgement
26-Dec-2013
CJP approaches NHRC for Restoration of Sreekumar’s Protection
27-Sep-2013
The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) through its secretary, Teesta Setalvad has approached the NHRC for restoration of the 24 hour police protection given to former DGP Gujarat RB Sreekumar since October 2007. Sreekumar a key witness in the Zakia Jafri case faces serious threat from a vindictive state government against whom he has…
Press Release: Twelfth Day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
12-Aug-2013
Three serving officers of the Gujarat government in 2002 (Rahul Sharma, then SP Bhavnagar and DCP Crime Branch, Sanjiv Bhatt, then DCP-Int and RB Sreekumar, then ADGP-Int) provided internal, official yet independent information to indicate that a deliberate conspiracy was hatched by A-1 Narendra Modi to manipulate the Godhra incident to allow the statewide…
Eleventh day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
02-Aug-2013
August 02, 2013 Press Release Eleventh day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition Despite strong strictures by four or five statutory bodies commenting harshly on the complete breakdown of the rule of law in 2002, a breakdown that could be attributed not just to dereliction of duty but criminal negligence, the Special Investigation…
Press Release: Eighth Day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
24-Jul-2013
The decision to hand over bodies to Jaideep Patel, general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and co-accused and collaborator in the carefully orchestrated conspiracy executed by A-1 Narendra Modi, was a deliberate, criminal and conscious act that must be prosecuted as it was aimed at handing over GujaratÂ’s streets to the Vishwa Hindu…
Press Release: Seventh day of Arguments in Zakia Jafri Protest Petition
24-Jul-2013
The SIT, instead of functioning like a dispassionate investigating agency has gone out on a limb to disprove the presence for former MOS Revenue, Haren Pandya and former DCP-Int Sanjiv Bhatt at the law and order meeting that took place at A-1 Narendra ModiÂ’s residence on the late night of 27.2.2002 argued counsel for…