THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS (Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra) ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH PREAMBLE: 1. On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying [...]
P . O . T . A Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat. How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as [...]
Fabricating Systematic Lies (Mukul Sinha, Jan Sangharsh Manch) When the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express had reduced to ashes near the Godhra railway station on 27th February, 2002, few had imagined that this event would forever change the politics of this country. Use of communal politics is not alien to the political culture of [...]
By S.H. Iyer Advocate JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave this [...]
Yesterday, they could perhaps relate themselves with the elites of the mighty rulers of the Mugals or the British Empire. Today, the same two religious groups are struggling to swim against the waves of communal politics of the present ruling elite. Secularism and communalism have become wholly intertwined with the vote politics. While Nanavati Commissions [...]
Conclusions by Jan Sangharsh Manch The official version of Government of Gujarat regarding the burning of the coach as developed through 9 charge-sheets does not inspire any confidence since the said version suffers from innumerable contradictions obvious on the face of records. The theory that Razak Kurkuyre, Salim Panwala and few other Muslims of Signal [...]
‘Dharamveer’ is a common man living peacefully when he is suddenly confronted with conflicting and competing ideologies. trapped in an ideological web, his innocence vanishes and his thoughts are subverted by the collective hate of fanatic mobs.Dharamveer is an attempt to project the frightening reality of impressionable minds transformed into ‘holy warriors’. In the chaos, [...]
The Encounters Sameer Khan Pathan was killed on 22.10.2002 at 1.55 am while in the custody of the Gujarat Police on the allegation that he was about to attackl the policemen. Sadik Jamal Mehtar was killed on 13th January, 2003 near Galaxy cinema , Ahmedabad on the allegation that he had come to murder Narendra [...]
APPOINTMENT OF JUSTICE AKSHAY MEHTA (Retd.) IN NANAVATI INQUIRY COMMISSION – CAN A PERSON BE THE JUDGE IN HIS OWN CAUSE? -By S.H. Iyer Advocate Jan Sangharsh Manch, Ahmedabad The cardinal principle of administration of justice that – a person can not be the judge in his own cause, is put to test before the [...]
MINING OF MILIOLITE LIMESTONES The coastal region of Gujarat stretching from Kutcch to Bhavnagar District contains large deposits of limestones, which are geologically known as Miliolite. These stones act as barrier between seawater and the underground Sweetwater of the land. In recent past the Government of Gujarat has granted mining lease and license to several [...]
