[Reader-list] No need for foreign interference in Gujarat riot cases: Supreme Court

[anupam chakravartty]

But it is a matter of pride for us that we have israeli drones flying
above our heads monitoring our shorelines. we will have a host of
foreign companies signing mous worth crores buying off farmer's land
with the new policies. the court doesn't really mind such foreign
interferences. the court minds if someone's pointing out at the
miscarriage of justice for the past 8 years since 2002. we must learn
about this new character donned by the state. we must understand that
all of us subservient to this national ego. national pride before
lives of thousands of people. so what if narendra amin feels
threatened inside the jail, let it be. if you want to wail about this
nation, you better confine yourself in an asylum. think national
pride, stop wailing. instead, let us attack a literary festival now
and burn the effigies of all the writers because they were funded by
corporates. let us be dogs of the same pack, why hunt alone??

On 1/20/11, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:
> It is clear now that Teesta and others use godhra riot episode as a tool of
> raising fund by involving foreign organization. But, SC scrolled them and
> not allowed.
>
> http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_no-need-for-foreign-interference-in-guj
> arat-riot-cases-supreme-court_1496990
>
> The Supreme Court today came down heavily on social activist Teesta Setalvad
> for raising the issue of post-Godhra riots of Gujarat with foreign
> organisations saying that it can take care of the cases and no interference
> is required from overseas human rights groups.
> "We don't appreciate that other organisations interfere in our functioning.
> We can take care of (them) ourselves and cannot get guided by others. It's a
> direct interference in our functioning. We don't appreciate it," a special
> bench headed by Justice DK Jain said.
> The court was anguished that the NGO, Centre for Justice and Peace (CJP),
> headed by Setalvad approached Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner
> for Human Rights raising the issue of protection of witnesses in riots
> cases.
> "You seem to have more faith in foreign organisations than this court. It
> seems that witnesses would be protected by these organisations," the bench
> remarked adding that if such letters are written then the court would pass
> the order without hearing the contentions of the CJP.
> "If you send such letters then we would hear the amicus curie and pass the
> order (without hearing you)," the court said adding, "All the cases are
> being monitored by us, we don't like any correspondence of her with foreign
> agencies."
> The issue was brought before the bench by senior advocate Harish Salve who
> is assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the Gujarat riot cases of
> 2002.
> The NGO's counsel Kamini Jaiswal pleaded that no such letters would be sent
> to other organisations in future.
> She had earlier said that the NGO had forwarded a copy of the October 7,
> 2010, letter addressed to special investigation team chairman RK Raghavan to
> the international body with which the NHRC is also associated.
>
>
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