The Gujarat government on Tuesday maintained that Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends killed in a 2004 shootout were terrorists and said it would challenge a report of a metropolitan magistrate that said the police shot them in cold blood.
A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang that [...]
It was just one man among billions who finally brought justice and peace to the family of Ishrat Jahan Shaikh, killed in a fake encounter on June 14, 2004. His
name — Mukul Sinha. It was 4.30 pm in 2007 when Musarat Jahan, Shamima Jahan and a friend entered advocate Mukul Sinha’s Ahmedabad office. The women [...]
Five years after she was gunned down as an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, Gujarat High Court has ordered a probe that would establish if indeed Ishrat Jahan was a fidayeen or simply a college student felled by trigger-happy policemen.
The court has set up a three-member committee of senior IPS officers to investigate afresh the June 2004 killing of [...]
The Gujarat high court on Thursday set up a three-member team comprising senior police officers of the state to investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The team, consisting of additional DGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG JK Bhatt, has been asked to submit its report within three months. Ishrat Jahan, a student from Mumbai, [...]
Dated: 16.3.2009
Press Release
Unity of the Left and Democratic force:
The only alternative for the oppressed people of Gujarat.
The 15th loksabha election to be held in April/May 2009 appears to be turning into a fight between the “national parties” like INC and BJP on one hand and the regional parties on the other hand. This apparent conflict [...]
Praful BidwaiOne can only marvel-if that’s the word-at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the social climate in state after state. Within months of taking power in Karnataka, it has unleashed savage repression and turned Mangalore into a Hindu Taliban bulwark, where women are attacked if they go to a bar, [...]
There may be many a slip before the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Gujcoc) (Amended) Bill, 2003, passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, becomes an Act, especially with the new government at the Centre promising to repeal Pota. Framed on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999, [...]
NATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST FASCISM
Report, Proceedings and Resolutions
1st September, 2007
VENUE: Town hall, Ashram road ,Ahmedabad
Inaugural Session.
(Presided by Shri A.P.Ravani, Retd Chief Justice Rajasthan High Court)
After registration of the delegates, the conference began with the screening of the film `Come see America’ by Sashi, highlighting [...]
The New Socialist Movement in Gujarat along with the Muslim Intellectuals Forum (Mumbai), the Aman (Ahmedabad), the Bahujan Sangharsh Samiti (Nagpur) and other organisations, organised the National Conference against Fascism, Terrorism and Fake encountersin Ahmedabad on 1-2 Sept 2007. The Conference attempted [...]
NEW SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
Pauperizing the rural masses
Contract and Corporate Farming – Globalisation of Agriculture in India
(Exposing 743 million people in rural India to the exploitation by multi-national agro-industries.)
National Agricultural Policy (NAP) of Govt. of India announced in 2000 envisaged that “Private sector participation in Agriculture shall be promoted through Contract Farming and Land-leasing arrangements (Corporate Farming) [...]
