Date: 13 April 2012 Subject: SC slams Gujarat govt., spares Teesta in mass grave case
SC slams Gujarat govt., spares Teesta in mass grave case - Full Story - Newzfirst<http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/sc-slams-gujarat-govt-spares-teesta-in-mass-grave-case?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fhome> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 I SC slams Gujarat govt., spares Teesta in mass grave case By Newzfirst 4/13/12 <http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/> <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=newzfirst> NEW DELHI - In a relief to social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court Friday stayed all the proceedings against her in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots case involving exhumation of unidentified bodies buried at Lunawada in the state. The court said that it was the Gujarat authority that should have been prosecuted for the violation of human rights. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai told Gujarat government counsel: "You must have read the FIR (first information report). Accused should have been on the other side (state authority). It was the state which should have been prosecuted for the violation of the human rights." The court stressed, "We are highly dissatisfied. The case is made out against the authorities. If an holistic view is taken, the FIR should have been against the authorities." In the case, the Gujarat government had filed an FIR against Teesta Setalvad alleging that the mass grave of the people killed in 2002 Gujarat riots was dug up at her behest. The entire case against Setalvad was based on a statement made by one man, Rais Khan, who was working in her NGO, Committee for Justice and Peace (CJP). The court said the entire case against Teesta is malafide. "This is a malafide case," the bench observed. The mass grave digging case refers to an incident Dec 27, 2005, when six people, led by Rais Khan Pathan, the then field co-ordinator of the CJP, dug up 28 unclaimed bodies near the bed of the Panam river at Lunawada in Panchmahal district of Gujarat. Claiming that the bodies were of the missing victims of the Pandharwada massacre and that they were their relatives, the grave-diggers had then reburied the bodies according to Islamic rites after having conducted DNA tests to identify them. At the time, Pathan had said he had dug up the bodies at Setalvad's behest. A total of 32 people -- all of them Muslim and residents of Pandharwada town in Panchmahal district -- were reported to have been killed March 1, 2002, during statewide communal riots. However, bodies of 28 people were not found. <http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/> -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist Hey folks, coined this term ” Kracktivism “, check out my blog http://kractivist.wordpress.com/Kracktivism Blog for girl child- http://fassmumbai.wordpress.com/ Blog for Kashmir -http://kashmirsolidaritymumbai.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/#!/Kracktivist https://www.facebook.com/kamayani *I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal....... Rabia (Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya) * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
