Tag: Zakia Jafri Case

Group of former civil servants asks if constitutional right to approach courts can be treated in so cavalier and revengeful a fashion that the persons seeking justice are put behind bars?

She will now be taken to the Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad, where she will be lodged for 14 days or till she gets bail

Protesters demand the immediate release of the arrested while dismissing all allegations

From international alliances to indigenous groups, citizens stand with Teesta Setalvad and others

Eminent citizens, including top lawyers in India, have written to Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana about the Zakia Jafri SLP judgment’s consequences

On the final day of the hearing, the petitioners brought before the court all the material that required investigation and which was ignored by the SIT in filing its closure report

With only a few more submissions to make, the petitioners until now have pointed out how the SIT failed on aspects like failure to question authorities, failure to record victims’ statements and also demonstrated how the Gujarat High Court had questioned the investigating methods of the SIT which were contrary to law

The petitioners made counter-submissions to the effect that the SIT did not make any submissions in response to what the petitioners had said before the court, and invoked parts of the complaint that were not urged before the court at all

The SIT submitted that the court should not exercise its jurisdiction in this matter as it would put the criminal justice in a fix.

Solicitor General fails to defend State, digs up old cases where Setalvad has either been exonerated or given protection by courts