Latest update on Gujarat Cases

   ‘Frustrated’, special prosecutor, deputy quit Gulbarg case  (The Times of India)
( March 3, 2010) 

 

   SIT Special Public Prosecutor, deputy resign   (The Hindu)
( March 3, 2010) 

 

  Be Your Father’s Son
An open letter to Amitabh Bachchan

  (The Tehelka) ( March 6, 2010) 

 

   Reconstitute SIT, demand survivors  (The DNA) ( March 1, 2010) 

 

  Godhra eyewitness: CISF deployed at Mullah’s residence

  (The Indian Express) ( March 1, 2010) 

 

   8yrs later, Gulbarg still haunts  (The DNA) ( March 1, 2010) 

 

   Naroda Patia investigation: Verdict likely on March 4

  (The DNA) ( March 1, 2010) 

 

   Godhra eyewitness: CISF deployed at Mullah’s residence

  (The Indian Express) ( March 1, 2010) 

 

   Gujarat HC notice to SIT
     ( Feb. 24, 2010) 

 

   Probing questions  
     (SIT EXPOSED) (Frontline)
     (Feb. 24, 2010) 

 

   An important witness for the prosecution Balwant Sinh from the Gujarat Home Department
deposed in the Gulberg Trial  
(Feb. 16, 2010) 

   Reply to complaints, court tells Raghavan (The Hindu)
(Feb. 10, 2010) 

   SC tells Guj riots probe team to come clean  (The DNA) (Feb. 10, 2010) 

 

   Giving Guj riots probe to CBI a closed chapter, rules SC 
(The Indian Express) (Feb. 10, 2010) 

 

    Naroda trial halts as accused slaps another in court
(The Times of India) (Feb. 3, 2010) 

 

   The unmaking of an investigation (The Seminar) 

 

    Court dismisses plea to transfer Godhra riots case  

(The Rediff on net) (Jan. 28, 2010) 

 

   Sardarpura massacre case: Plea for further probe rejected   (The Indian Express) (Jan. 28, 2010) 

 

    Gulberg Society victims demand transfer of trial

(The Hindu) (Jan. 26, 2010)

 

    Witnesses call trial judge biased (The Indian Express)
(Jan. 26, 2010) 

 

    Gulbarg massacre witnesses demand change of judge 
(The Times of India) (Jan. 26, 2010) 

 

    GULBERG TRIAL UPDATE Victim Witnesses Move Tranfer Petition,  Judge Biased  (Jan. 25, 2010) 

 

    Johri wants to quit Gujarat riots probe team (The Asian Age)  
(Jan. 21, 2010) 

 

  'Kodnani had fired from her revolver' (The DNA)  (Jan. 21, 2010) 
         
    Kodnani blow for Modi over riot ‘ role’ (The Mail Today)  (Jan. 21, 2010) 

 

   What about plea to summon Modi, High Court asks panel
(The Hindu)   (Jan. 21, 2010) 

 

  Gujarat asked to give Modi speech copy (The Asian Age)   (Jan. 20, 2010) 

 

  Guj riots probe: Modi under lens

(The Times of India)   (Jan. 20, 2010) 

  Hand over all documents to SIT, Gujarat told (The Hindu)  (Jan. 21, 2010) 

   Gulberg riot: Court approves naming cop as accused (The Indian Express)   (January 19, 2010) 

 

   Gulberg Riots: 7 eyewitness call trail court ‘Biases’ (The Indian Express)    (January 8, 2010)  

   Condemnation of Attack at Nayana Kathpalia’s home (January 12, 2010)  

   2002 Gujarat riots: Special trial court questions state’s use of reserve police force (The Indian Express)   (January 8, 2010)  
      

   No evidence against 8 to be included in accused list: SIT
(The Indian Express)   (January 8, 2010)

 

   Naroda Gam witness accused cop of not recording full statement (The DNA)  (January 8, 2010)

   Women subjected to brutal atrocities in Godhra: Setalvad  
(The Hindu)  (December 30, 2009)

   Jafri had called up Advani, Modi: Gulbarg Witness (The Indian Express)  (December 16, 2009)

   3 women named in Deepda Darwaza case (The Indian Express)  
          (November 19, 2009)

   Threat cry in riots case (The Telegraph)  (November 19, 2009)

   Include Ex-DCP as witness in Gulbarg case: Setalvad
(The Times of India)  (November 16, 2009)

 

‘When Jafri called Modi for help during riots, CM abused him’ (Nov 5, 2009)

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 PRESS RELEASE

  Why has SIT not made Rahul Sharma a witness in the Gulberg Massacre case?
(November 16, 2009)

  CJP Sabrang Commemorate Years of Sikh Massacre, Demand Justice for the Victims
(October 31, 2009) 

  SIT forced to submit police records in Gulberg Case, phone records of 3 accused missing (October 7, 2009)

Lend your Voice to Our Struggle Eighth Anniversary of the Gujarat Genocide 2002

    Conditions & Plight of Mumbra (Press Release)
       Madhyamik Shala Mumbra & Thane    
       Mahanagarpalika Dharna on 8 March, 2010 at
       11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

RESS RELEASE

     A Healthier and Safer Mumbai!!! Two Ambulances at Sion and Marine Lines Station  
(November 26, 2009) 

SC orders probe  into Modi's role in  Gujarat riots For full coverage with latest update click here

Eight Critical Trials in Gujarat (2002 Riots) For full coverage with latest update click here

              Open Letter to NDA Allies (Press Release, March 23, 2008)

 UN Report slams Modi for denying justice  

 Further Subversion in Gujarat 2002 Cases from Citizens for Justice  and Peace, Mumbai (18/12/2008)

Citizens for Justice and Peace condemns Jaipur Bomb Blasts (15/5/2008)

SC: Intervene to protect lives of Witnesses, Summon Tapes  (27/10/2007)

Citizens for Justice and Peace condemns the dastardly bomb blasts
at the revered Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (12/10/2007)

Citizens for Justice and Peace strongly condemns the act of bomb terror in the northern towns of Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad (23/11/2007)

Terror Attack on Samjhauta Express - Press Release (19/02/2007)

Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Mob Terror, State Terror and Bomb Terror -- Organised by Citizens for Justice and Peace, Communalism Combat, Mumbai  (21/12/06)

 

Barbaric Rule Saudi Arabia's inhuman punishment of a rape victim 22 November 2007 Venue: Saudi Arabia Consulate, Cuff Parade, Mumbai

 

Gujarat riot victims to get Rs 7 lakh: Centre -- The Indian Express (27/11/06) | Press Backgrounder | Note on Compensation |

 

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Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a citizens' group committed to the rule of law, was formed in Mumbai

on April 1, 2002 following the terrible communal carnage in Gujarat.

Calendar Of Achievements

(April 2002-February 2006)

CJP’s activities in the last 4 years have been focussed on legal interventions to ensure justice for the victims and punishment for the perpetrators of the Gujarat genocide.

Success Stories So Far:

1. Reluctant CM made to spend extra crores on relief

Action: Petition in Gujarat High Court (April 2002) to make the state government provide and pay for adequate relief to the 1.7 lakh people rendered homeless and destitute; petitions against government officials coercing relief camp managers into closing their camps even when victims have nowhere to go.

Result: High Court orders ensure that many relief camps stay open until September-October 2002; a highly reluctant state government made to spend several additional crores on relief measures.

2. ‘Modi chief author and architect of genocide’: Tribunal

Action: CJP sets up a Concerned Citizens Tribunal headed by three retired SC and Mumbai High Court judges for a citizens’ probe into the carnage (May 2002).

Result: The Tribunal’s 3-volume report, ‘Crime Against Humanity’ (November 2002) that remains the most incisive document on the genocidal violence in Gujarat. Its recommendations have triggered a national campaign for institutional reform to prevent mass crimes in future.

3. SC Orders Transfer And Retrial Of Best Bakery Case

Action: CJP petitions the SC along with Zahira Sheikh, asking for a retrial of the Best Bakery massacre case outside Gujarat (August 2003).

Results: SC decides to monitor the progress of ALL the carnage related cases, appoints an amicus curiae (October 2003).

q In a historic and unprecedented judgement (April 2004), SC orders retrial of the Best Bakery case outside Gujarat (in Maharashtra).

q The DGP of Gujarat is directed (August 2004) to reopen and review the over 2,000 incidents of violence that had been closed by the state police.

4. No votes over dead bodies

Action: CJP submits a detailed and a well-documented memorandum and leads delegation of victims to the Chief Election Commissioner, Lyngdoh, challenging the Gujarat government’s claim that the situation in Gujarat was normal to ensure a free and fair trial. (August 2002).

Result: CEC rejects the Gujarat government’s claim of normalcy and orders postponement of polls. Subsequently, when the CEC's decision was challenged in the SC, CJP filed written arguments before the Constitutional bench opposing snap polls in Gujarat.

5. Godhra victims’ kin, too, repose faith in CJP

Action: Four families from Ahmedabad, each of whom had lost one or more family member in coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express train tragedy at Godhra, approach CJP for legal assistance. CJP files an application in SC (October 2003) for a retrial of the Godhra arson case outside Gujarat as the affected families did not expect to get justice in the state.

Result: The Godhra trial is stayed by the SC. The plea for re-investigation and transfer is pending.

6. Guilty cop Pandey shunted out of CBI

Action: CJP petitions SC (April 2004), challenging the NDA government’s malafide promotion and transfer of former Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, PC Pandey (whose own role during the carnage needs investigation), as Deputy Director, CBI.

Result: The Union government moves PC Pandey out of the CBI (October 2004).

7. Compensation to victims of terrorism in J&K

Action: On the request of the families concerned, CJP pursues the J&K government asking for expeditious payment of compensation to the Mumbai-based Chandrakant Shah and Nirav Vakharia whose family members were killed or seriously injured in the bomb blast in a hotel in Pahalgam, Kashmir (June 2004).

Result: The affected families receive timely compensation.

Cases Pending in the Supreme Court... (pdf)