कानून का बोलबाला
January 8, 2016
Legal luminaries H.M. Seervai, Nani A. Palkhiwala, Fali S. Nariman, Soli Sorabjee and Hosbet Suresh express shock and dismay at the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the special leave petition against the Bombay High Court’s failure to direct the government of Maharashtra to prosecute Saamna for inflammatory writings. Plus an appeal to the Chief Justice of the highest court in the land...
January 6, 2016
The HRD Ministry of the Union government has come out with a document on a proposed New Education Policy on 21 March 2015. It is an elaborate multi-tier arrangement, time-bound as professed. It consists of a 17 page part on policy and object lay-out termed Consultation Process, two documents on Themes and questions for Policy Consultation with a 27 page part on School education and a 55-page one...
December 31, 2015
The Suchana Evam Rojgar Adhikar Abhiyaan (SR Abhiyaan) is currently on a hundred day " Jawabdehi Yatra" across the State of Rajasthan. The Yatra has received a strong and positive response from ordinary people – both in terms of support for a strong accountability law, as well as through the filing of individual and collective grievances and complaints. We write to give you an...
December 29, 2015
Acknowledgement, remorse, justice and reconciliation are the accepted steps required for collective healing when wounds of an indescribable nature have been inflicted on a whole population. In Gujarat, five years after independent India’s worst genocide, there has been little or no acknowledgement of the crimes and no question therefore of any expression of remorse from perpetrators and...
December 29, 2015
The anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and violence in Gujarat, after killing of 59 Ram Bhaktas in Godhra Railway Station, in 2002, and subsequent subversion of Criminal Justice System in Gujarat State, had inflicted infamy on the image of Indian State and its commitment to the Rule of Law. Unlike terrorist attacks and explosions, no communal riots can prolong unless the authorities avoid implementation of...
December 28, 2015
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL
On Sardar Sarovar Claims and Realities of Development and Rehabilitation
(September 11th and 12, 2015 at Rajghat, Badwani, M.P.)
Justice (Retd.) Panachand Jain
Rajasthan High Court
Justice (Retd.) V. D. Gyani
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Justice (Retd.) N.K. Modi
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Justice (Retd.) Nagamohan...
December 24, 2015
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मेरे जीवन में सौ प्रतिशत सर्वधर्म समभाव है। मैं सभी धर्मों से समान रूप से पीड़ित हूं, इसलिए सबके प्रति एक जैसा भाव रखना मजबूरी है। अगर आप कभी दिल्ली से गाज़ियाबाद के बीच कहीं कांवड़ियों के हाथों पिटे हों या पिटते-पिटते बचे हों, शब-ए-बारात की जुलूस से किसी तरह जान बचाकर निकले हों, गुरुपर्व पर रास्ता रोककर श्रद्धालुओं ने आपको कभी ज़बरदस्ती...
December 23, 2015
Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy,
Justice D. A. Desai,
Justice D. S. Tewatia (Panel)
In the December of 1992, when the Babri Masjid was demolished, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), then in the Opposition, rode piggy-back on the more rabid Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) combine, and even participated, and celebrated the demolition of...
December 22, 2015
Destruction of the Babri Masjid: A National Dishonour is a sequel to The Babri Masjid Question 1528 2003: A Matter of National Honour , published in 2003 in two volumes a compilation by A.G. Noorani of documents and primary source material on various aspects of the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute, covering the demolition of the Masjid on 6 December 1992, and the legal proceedings in the...