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October 17, 2013
CJP Petition on Muzaffarnagar admitted by Supreme Court,
Notice Issued
The Supreme Court bench hearing the Muzaffarnagar cases
issued notice on a writ petition filed by Mumbai-based Citizens for Justice and
Peace (CJP), victim survivors praying for the appointment of a High
Powered Committee of Court Commissioners to survey the four worst affected
districts (Shamli, Baghpat, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar), assess details of the
dead and missing as also the scale of damages and monitor the transparency and
quality of the probe/investigation and report back to the Supreme Court.
Petitioners have also asked for directions to transfer the investigations to
the CBI. The state government that had filed a status report has been asked to
respond to the allegations by the petitioners that powerful accused are being
dropped as accused and serious offence of rape and gender violence have not
been recorded. The petition has also prayed for investigations into the overall
criminal conspiracy, behind which majoritarian outfits are involved, which is
related to communalizing the atmosphere prior to the elections using the
services of supremacist outfits especially the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
Individual incidents of conflict have been converted into mass mobilization by
these outfits with hateful anti-minority propaganda being a ready tool.
The co-petitioners include two Victim Survivors, Shahid
Hassan, son of Sirajuddin who along with four others was massacred in the
attack on Lisadh village of Shamli district and Samaydeen son of
Kamruddin who was also killed in the violence at Lisadh and the Awami
Council for Peace and Democracy (WP Nos 170/2013) and are being represented by
advocates Aparna Bhat and Ramesh Pukhrambam.
The detailed prayers also include directions to the State to
register FIRs against the named powerful accused persons in respect of arson,
theft, attempt to murder and murder and rape and molestation; to
constitute a High Power Committee of Court Commissioners comprising of the
persons/officers, which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper, to visit
the affected areas rural as well as urban where people suffered murder, loot,
arson, rape and other criminal acts and have not been able to lodge F.I.Rs
for the offence committed against them due to fear, threat and intimidation or
because they are victim survivors who are incapacitated and hence require
assistance and access because of any other reason and to assist them to lodge
F.I.R. for the offence committed with them to ensure a thorough
investigation into all the F.I.Rs. which have already been lodged from
27.8.2013 to date relating to illegal meetings and unlawful assemblies,
targeted loot, arson, circulation of fake photographs and videos and inciting
communal passions by the holding of unlawful meetings and Panchayats by fixing
the responsibility for the aforesaid offences; as well as identifying the officers,
individuals, representatives, political leaders, organizations and other
persons who instigated the general public by convening a Panchayat in village
Nagla Mataund at Muzaffarnagar on 7.9.2013 where the people were allowed to
assemble not only from adjoining district but also from outside the state armed
with dangerous weapons; to direct effective compensation to all survivors of
the dead and injured and those who have suffered heavy losses.
The petition lists in detail the chronology of events leading
up to the ghastly killings at Muzaffarnagar that have rendered 41,000 homeless
and questions the state police and administration allowing armed Khap
panchayatas, Mahapanchayats when a communal atmosphere was building up in the
four districts of Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Meerut. A list of 161
worst affected villages from where minorities have had to flee has also been
annexed to the petition.
Trustees:
Taizoon
Khorakiwala Nandan
Maluste
Teesta Setalvad
I.M. Kadri
Cyrus
Guzder Javed
Akhtar
Alyque Padamsee
Anil Dharker
Ghulam Pesh
Imam
Rahul
Bose Javed Anand
Cedric Prakash
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