As the fight for justice continues, the man who helped bring about the anti-rape law, Justice JS Verma passed away on Monday evening after suffering from a multiple organ failure. He was one of India's most respected jurists and played guide and mentor to the news television media for nearly five years.
"Failure of good governance is the reason for the current situation, not lack of legislation." This is what Justice Verma had said while presenting the report of his committee tasked to suggest ways to strengthen laws on crimes against women, post the horrific Delhi gangrape in December 2012. It was a report widely appreciated for carrying over 600 pages of perspective.
It was, yet another example in a string of sterling contributions in 1994. Justice Verma's judgment on Ayodhya was considered as a landmark; as was his scathing report on the Gujarat 2002 riots as the chairman of the National Human rights commission.
Since October 2008, Justice Verma headed the News Broadcasting Standards Authority, playing an immensely fair and stern ombudsman, besides a guide and lighthouse for television news....
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12:10 PM, Apr 23, 2013
In a setback to the activists seeking investigation against Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case, a Gujarat court on Tuesday rejected Zakia Jafri's protest petition against the SIT closure report giving clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister due to lapse of time. ...
05:23 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: A decade after 97 people were killed in a massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots at Naroda Patiya area of Ahmedabad, a special court on Friday sentenced to life 31 people, including sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government, Maya Kodnani. It is an unprecedented victory for the Special Investigating Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court, which is probing nine Gujarat...
11:18 PM, Aug 31, 2012
The verdict and the sentencing of the Naroda Patiya massacre throw light on important questions on all riot cases. ...
08:41 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: A trial court on Friday gave life imprisonment to nine people and acquitted 32 others in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra Ode killings. Three persons, including two women, were killed at the Malav Bhagol locality in Ode village a decade ago. This was the third case of the 2002 riots at Ode village that was being probed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team. As many as...
12:14 PM, May 04, 2012
Washington: A Congressional resolution urging Gujarat government to restore religious freedom in the state has been introduced in the US House of Representatives on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of communal riots. The non-binding resolution (H Res 569) "recognising the 10th anniversary of the tragic communal violence in Gujarat" was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Keith Ellison, early this week. Unlike most of such resolutions, it...
07:56 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: A magisterial court in Ahmedabad is expected to deliver its verdict on Zakia Jafri's plea that she be given a copy of the complete report prepared by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the Gulbarg massacre case, 2002, during which her husband, Ehsan Jafri, was murdered. Zakia has also questioned if the report can be read out in court or not. The SIT has allegedly found no prosecutable...
07:06 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed an application in the Metropolitan Court in Ahmedabad on Thursday stating that they have an apprehension that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not filed the complete report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as directed by the Supreme Court. The petitions have been filed by Setalvad and lawyer Mukul...
11:30 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed an application in the Metropolitan Court in Ahmedabad on Thursday stating that they have an apprehension that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not filed the complete report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as directed by the Supreme Court. The petitions have been filed by Setalvad and lawyer Mukul...
11:30 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: After reports suggesting that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Ehsan Jafri killing case, the former Congress MP's wife Zakia Jafri has expressed her disappointment. Zakia said that she is really disappointed with the report and will not sit back with the report. Zakia added that she will consult the lawyers and then will...
10:20 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ehsan Jafri killing in Gujarat on Wednesday filed a report in the case. While the contents of the report remain under wraps, crime branch sources have claimed that the committee appointed by the Supreme Court hasn't found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. However, the SIT officials haven't offered any confirmation on this. The final report was submitted in a...
06:35 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ehsan Jafri killing in Gujarat has filed a report on the case. Crime branch sources claimed that the committee appointed by the Supreme Court hasn't found enough evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but the SIT officials haven't offered any confirmation on this. Sources in SIT refused to divulge the contents of the report. The SIT has filed its report in...
11:01 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Saturday submitted a few documents to RK Raghavan, the chief of Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, along with a letter claiming that they proved police inaction in the first 48 hours of violence. "Please find... copies of some relevant documents which should convince you that for some inexplicable reason, Ahmedabad City Police was exceptionally lax in making preventive arrests...
06:45 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Congress on Monday once again targeted Amitabh Bachchan for becoming the brand ambassador of Gujarat. ...
06:11 PM, Mar 29, 2010
The witness has given a detailed account of what happened that day. ...
01:53 AM, Nov 06, 2009
