Direct link to scholarships offered by  Govt. of India

List of Private NGOs offering scholarships

Jabir Ibn Haiyyan - GEBER

Geber, aka Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, was a prominent Islamic alchemist, pharmacist, philosopher, astronom

Ummid Assistant

Admissions open at AMU off campus centers Murshidabad and Malappuram (Kerala).

Welcome Guest! You are here: Home » National

Gujarat Riots: Apex court slams NGO for writing to UN agency

Thursday December 02, 2010 09:56:49 PM, IANS

Related Article

'Teesta Setalvad not worried about court probe'

The Citizens for Justice and Peace, the Mumbai-based voluntary organization fighting for the 2002 Gujarat riot victims, stated Thursday that its  »

Teesta files rejoinder, demands reconstitution of SIT

Teesta denies fabricating riot victims' affidavits

Court seeks views of NGOs, media in Gujarat riots case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday took strong exception to an NGO and petitioner in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases sending copies of its letters, addressed to the special investigating team (SIT), to a Geneva-based UN human rights organisation.

"We will not allow the outside agency to interfere in the affairs of our court," said the special apex court bench of Justice D.K. Jain, Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Aftab Alam.

Counsel for NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), Kamini Jaiswal said that the United Nation Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR) was an international body to which the country's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was affiliated. The NGO's communication with UNCHR were regarding witness protection, she said.

At this, the court asked: "...Switzerland will provide witness protection?"

"You may have associations with hundreds of associations all over the globe. Why do they have to know what is happening in the courts here?" the court asked.

"We can't allow outside agency to interfere in the affairs of our courts," the court said.

"We are hearing you and passing orders. What is your grievance?" the court asked Jaiswal.

At this senior counsel Ranjit Kumar told the court that the apex court bench headed by the then Justice Arijit Pasayat had given elaborate directions for the protection of witnesses in the nine Godhra and post-Godhra riot cases entrusted to the SIT headed by the former CBI director R.K. Raghavan.

The court asked Jaiswal to seek instructions from the CJP on its action related to forwarding the communications to the UNCHR.

The court took on record the status report filed by the SIT Nov 26 in nine cases, which were under trial.

The cases relate to Godhra and post-Godhra riots which engulfed Gujarat in the wake of fire in a coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra railway station Feb 27, 2002, killing 58 people returning from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

On the petition of the wife of a riot victim seeking the transfer of trial in Ahmedabad's Gulberg Society carnage during the post-Godhra riots, the court said that it would hold hearing Dec 15.

On Feb 28, 2002, the Gulberg Society faced the fury of Hindu fanatics who killed 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Zafri.

Jafri's widow Zakia Jafri has moved the apex court seeking the transfer of trial in the case.


 

 

 

 

  Bookmark and Share                                          Home | Top of the Page

Comment on this article

Name:
E-mail Address:
Write here...

News Pick

Return of Sarkozy shows France's importance to India

When the French president visited India in January 2008, he was unmarried. The stern Indian protocol babus did not allow him to bring Carla Bruni, his future wife - how would they seat her at official receptions, they   »

Five Sena MLAs suspended for a year, opposition furious

Five Shiv Sena legislators were Thursday suspended from the Maharashtra assembly for a year following their unruly behaviour in the house, prompting opposition leaders to say the government was "running scared"   »

Hamas to honour referendum on peace with Israel

The Hamas movement would accept the outcome of a Palestinian referendum on a future peace treaty with the Jewish state, its Gaza leader said on Wednesday. Ismael Haniyeh, addressing a news conference in the   »

Internet now single biggest source of global information

What began modestly in the late 1960s as a way to connect research establishments by the US military has grown phenomenally to become the Internet, networking and empowering billions of people worldwide in myriads   »

Media, politics, business and a lobbyist - India's own WikiLeaks

Where does brokering begin and lobbying end, who draws the line between journalistic ethics and peddling corporate in  »

Obama, Tata face wrath of Bhopal survivors

They had nothing to do with the Bhopal gas tragedy, but US President Barack Obama and Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata are still the target of public anger on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster   »

More Headlines

Supreme Court issues notices to government on Tata's plea

Bhopal survivors burn Anderson's effigy

Kranataka Land Scam: Lok Ayukta names state IT minister, son

Disabled demand change in mindsets, policy

Taj Mahal finally gets an ambulance

Mumbai 26/11 two years later: Unanswered Questions

Mobile connections touched 687.71 million in September

Five Sena MLAs suspended for a year, opposition furious

Chew gum in class, German school pupils told

BHU student suspended for posting obscene content on Facebook

Obama, Tata face wrath of Bhopal survivors

Crisis in Andhra as minister quits, 10 others unhappy

Internet now single biggest source of global information

Kerala Jews come to relive past, as present fades

Hamas to honour referendum on peace with Israel

 

 

 

Top Stories

Amazon stops hosting WikiLeaks

Amazon, after facing criticism for hosting WikiLeaks, has cut off the whistleblowing website from its servers, it was reported here Thursday. Following calls from US senators for a boycott of WikiLeaks by US companies, neither the main  »

Saudi Arabia distances itself from WikiLeaks expose

Pakistan's president feared military might 'take me out'

 

Picture of the Day

President of India Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil visited AAMAL, a non profit organisation to provide services and rehabilitation to disabled individuals & their families, at Damascus, in Syria on November 28, 2010. Syrian First Lady and Chairperson of AAMAL, Mrs. Asma Assad is also seen.

 

  Most Read

Crisis in Andhra as minister quits, 10 others unhappy

The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh plunged into crisis Thursday, less than 24 hours after the new cabinet was sworn in, with a minister resigning over the portfolio given to him and 10 other senior ministers also expressing their unhappiness amid  »

Mumbai 26/11 two years later: Unanswered Questions

This 26/11 (2010), the nation remembered with pain and grief about the incidents which had taken place two years earlier. In this a group of jeans clad terrorists rampaged the parts of Mumbai killing over two hundred innocent people. The lone survivor from terrorist groups Ajmal Kasab is facing    »

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RSS  |  Contact us

| Quick links

News

 

Subscribe to

Ummid Assistant

 

National

Religion

RSS

Scholarships

About us

International

Culture

Twitter

Government Schemes

Feedback

Regional

History

Facebook

Education

Register

Politics

Opinion

Newsletter

 

Contact us

Business

Career

     

Education

       

 

 

Ummid.com: Disclaimer | Terms of Use | Advertise with us | Link Exchange

Ummid.com is part of the Awaz Multimedia & Publications providing World News, News Analysis and Feature Articles on Education, Health. Politics, Technology, Sports, Entertainment, Industry etc. The articles or the views displayed on this website are for public information and in no way describe the editorial views. The users are entitled to use this site subject to the terms and conditions mentioned.

© 2010 Awaz Multimedia & Publications. All rights reserved.