Top Global Scholars Urge SC to Review Recent Orders Harming ‘Human Rights in India’
New Delhi: Leading international scholars have written a statement stating that they are very disturbed by some new assessments from the Supreme Court that they believe to have "direct influence on the future of civil and human rights in India."
The signing attracted attention to the top of the court in the request by Zakia Jafri, the wife of a member of the Parliament who was killed, Ehsan Jafri, challenged the clean chit of the Special Investigation Team to 64 people, including the Chairman of the Minister Narendra Modi, in the 2002 Riot Gujarat case.
Judgment raises three important questions:
"First, because the Petitioners have challenged the findings of the SIT report that gave a clean chit to the Gujarat government for the riots after the Godhra incident, and asked the Supreme Court...