Watch | 'Grave Injustice': People's Tribunal on SC Judgments on Gujarat Riots, Gompad Massacre

Name: Watch | Grave Injustice: Peoples Tribunal on SC Judgments on Gujarat Riots, Gompad Massacre - The Wire
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Description: Voicing their concerns regarding two recent, contentious Supreme Court judgments, a group of retired judges and academics held a people's tribunal on Saturday on the ‘judicial assault on civil liberties’.

Voicing their concerns regarding two recent, contentious Supreme Court judgments, a group of retired judges and academics held a people's tribunal on Saturday on the ‘judicial assault on civil liberties’.

Sumedha Pal

watch grave injustice people s tribunal on sc judgments on gujarat riots gompad massacre

From left to right: Professor Virginius Xaxa, Syeda Hameed, Justice Anjana Prakash and Justice Merlepalle, the members of the tribunal on 'Judicial Assault on Civil Liberties'. Photo: Sumedha Pal/ The Wire.

On August 6, in light of two recent, contentious judgments by the Supreme Court – the dismissal of Zakia Jafri's plea in the Gujarat Riots case and the dismissal and fine imposed on Himanshu Kumar in the Gompad massacre case – a people's tribunal was held on the ‘judicial assault on civil liberties’.

A panel of retired judges and academics heard accounts from victims of the two incidents themselves and voiced their concerns about the top court's judgments in the case, which they opined sided with the executive and questioned the very people who tried to question the authorities.

The panel comprised Justices A.P. Shah (former chief justice of the Delhi high court and former chairperson, Law Commission of India), Anjana Prakash (former judge of the Patna high court), Marlepalle (former judge of the Bombay high court) as well as professor Virginius Xaxa (chair of the 2014 High Level Committee to examine the status of STs) and Syeda Hameed (former member of the Planning Commission).

Hear what they had to say in the video below.

This article went live on August seventh, two thousand twenty two, at fifty-four minutes past seven in the evening.

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