By TCN News,
Mumbai: The Citizens for Justice and Peace, the Mumbai-based rights group that played key role in reviving Gujarat riot cases, has now put in public domain all the evidences it collected about the involvement of Hindutva organizations and individuals in the 2002 pogrom.
The group has put all evidences on the website www.gujarat-riots.com. The Citizens for Justice and Peace has been involved in the struggle for justice for the victims of the 2002 Gujarat genocidal carnage. By taking on the system that wishes to shield rather than punish the guilty, the group has been directly or indirectly responsible for ensuring that primary evidence against the perpetrators is placed before the courts as soon as it is available. “It is another matter that our Courts have been tardy, often ignoring this devastating evidence, prolonging the justice process and through this the scrutiny of evidence and deliverance of justice. We have tried as far as possible to place this material in the public domain,” it said in a statement.
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“Now in a renewed attempt to make available all this evidence, is the new portal www.gujarat-riots.com. Sequentially all material that is available may be read and evaluated. We hope too that through this process, assiduously followed by us, the guilty will also be punished,” the group says.
The website contains Official Reports of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Central Election Commission and the Government of Gujarat; Judgements of the Supreme Court of India and the Trial Courts; Exposures and Analysis of Evidence of Phone Call records of the Powerful conducted by us and submitted to the Courts — who Spoke to Whom and what were their location; figures of Relief and Rehabilitation that expose the State’s calls; CBI’s Authentication of Tehelka’s Operation Kalank; and the affidavits of former State Intelligence chief RB Sreekumar with their detailed annexure.
“We believe that a careful perusal of the same will effectively answer the oft- asked query: Is there sufficient evidence against those guilty for the State Sponsored Carnage of 2002? What we cannot predict and only the next few months will reveal is whether all this evidence will be thoroughly probed and evaluated to ensure satisfaction in the due process of law and deliverance of justice. Time will therefore tell however whether the Indian system has the grit courage and honesty to turn a spotlight on what must surely be remembered as its darkest hour.”
Trustees and office bearers of Citizens for Justice and Peace: IM Kadri (President), Nandan Maluste (Vice President), Teesta Setalvad (Secretary), Arvind Krishnaswamy (Treasurer) and Alyque Padamsee, Cyrus Guzder, Javed Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Javed Anand, Anil Dharker, Cedric Prakash, Ghulam Pesh Imam (Trustees).