A Dialogue Between Power and Justice
( From my poetry book ' Voice of Heart')
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Power:
I am what I am : It is all you must know,
People realize me when they face my heat.
Justice:
Without me, you show a devilish instinct,
If you leave me, your future is totally bleak.
Power:
I feel pity on you , your lofty claim and name,
You always try to wipe the tears of the weak.
It is ‘I’ who command the destiny of the world,
You only echo the voices of the timid and meek.
Justice:
I tremble at your arrogant and faithless words,
What by this boundless pride you want to seek.
It is you who bring havoc and ruin on the globe,
It is you who trample the peace under your feet.
Power:
Come out from dark alley, under the glare of Sun,
It is ‘I’ who decide your bottom, height and peak.
It is ‘I’ who give dictates to the faith and belief,
I repeat your name just to hit a winning streak.
I do what I like; For me, my will is the eternal word,
Cowards then cry that moral codes I always break.
I am slave to none; No one can challenge my gun,
You then lead the poor victims with groan and shriek.
Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL.D.
Lucknow, U.P. India
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On Sat, 18/6/16, Teesta Setalvad <
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Subject: Re: [بزم قلم:51412] Fwd: Gulberg massacre sentencing: Why it isn’t as harsh as Naroda Patiya
To: "Bazmeqalam" <
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Cc: "Arkitect India" <
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Date: Saturday, 18 June, 2016, 4:42 PM
We agree
with your sense of anger and anguish and have been battling
on this issue since 1993
rest assured that we will continue
Teesta Setalvad
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016
at 4:04 AM, Afzal Khan <
afzal...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Yakoob Memon did not have any direct
link in Bombay blast case and surrendered to Indian Security
agencies on
assurance of no hostile approach by Indian Govt. His only
crime was that he was
brother of Tiger Memon and managing his finances as a
professional Chartered
Accountant. Indian Army and intelligence agencies got so
much of valuable
information about Pakistan's nefarious designs which
otherwise would not have
been possible. This was confirmed by none else than the then
RAW Chief, our
highest intelligence agency and many others connected with
our security. Even the
elite citizens of the country publicly said that he does not
deserve death
sentence and demonstrated at the residence of CJI at odd
hour of around 3.00am.
Still the Supreme Court was asked to sit at 3.00 am and
reject his legal on our
own Jail Manual and thus super-seeding every legal norm and
rules he was hanged
on the dead line, as if not done, the country will be
finished. Contrarily,
Balthakre, against whom there was a judicial report (legally
appointed by
govt)of being part Bombay genocide, was not even tried,
instead given state
funeral without holding any constitutional office or public
office which
demands him state funeral. This double standard and murder
of justice may prove
suicidal for the country.
Here every proof of direct
involvement in mass murder was available, but the culprits
were given liberal
view to reduce their punishments to minimum because even our
present PM and the
then CM of Gujarat have their hands in glove in the
genocide. If the justice
will not be impartial but will depend over person to person
and community to
community, the citizens of the country will lose their faith
in our governance
and our judicial system. It is the question of faith and the
security, safety
and integrity of the country, therefore,
let the wiser sense prevail by punishing the guilty
irrespective of his/her
status, connections or liaison. This will be best in the
interest of all, may
be citizens or country.
Written &
Posted
By
Afzal Ahmad
KhanLucknow,
India
The
Indian EXPRESSJune 17,
2016
Gulberg massacre
sentencing: Why it isn’t as harsh as
Naroda Patiya
The
verdict in the Gulberg case is far different from the Naroda
Patiya killings,
where 97 persons were killed and the court had named a
sitting BJP MLA and
former minister in the then Modi government.
Written by Leena
Misra | Updated: June 17, 2016 4:27 pm
The verdict in the Gulberg case is
far different from the Naroda Patiya killings, where 97
persons were killed and
the court had named a sitting BJP MLA and former minister in
the then Modi
government.
The
punishment in the second biggest of the communal killings
that followed the
Godhra train carnage of February 27, 2002, handed out Friday
in the Gulberg
society massacre, looked all sound and fury as 11 of the 24
convicts got life
terms for the murder of 69 residents of this society
including the former Congress MP Ahsan
Jafri. While 12 got
seven years, of which two will walk free because they have
been in jail since
10 years.
The
Special Investigating Team (SIT) which was set up by the
Supreme Court, had
sought death for them even as the victims pleaded for
maximum punishment, but
not capital punishment.
Gulberg was the eighth of the nine
cases being reinvestigated by the SIT to be tried in special
courts set up on
orders and under the supervision of the Supreme Court on a
petition by the
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that free and fair
trial was not
possible in Gujarat.
Gulberg massacre
verdict:
11 convicted for murder given life
sentences
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The verdict in the Gulberg case is
far different from the Naroda Patiya killings, considered
the worst of the
post-Godhra bloodshed, where 97 persons were killed and the
court had named a
sitting BJP
MLA and former minister in the then Narendra Modi
government, Maya Kodnani,
as “kingpin” and awarded her life sentence for 28 years,
apart from 31 others.
In the Gulberg case, the court did
not find enough evidence to corroborate the conspiracy
clause, which would have
meant that the killings were pre-planned.
Gulberg Society verdict: This is
not justice, my struggle continues, says Zakia
Jafri
The defence has argued, based on
findings by SIT, that Jafri fired from his licenced gun on
the mob, as the
immediate provocation for the mob turning
violent.
The Naroda Patiya incident saw a
similar narrative of a truck having run over Hindus which
the defence argued as
having provoked the violence, but the court upheld that the
killings were
pre-planned and identified a kingpin.
Since the Naroda Patiya verdict, the
Gujarat government has already changed its mind about the
severity of Kodnani’s
role, advising the SIT against pleading for death sentence,
even as it was in
favour of death to nine of the convicts in 2013, before
Gujarat high court. The
apex court, in fact has stayed Kodnani’s exclusive and
expeditious hearing
appealing against her conviction and sentence last year
before the HC, on the
ground that she was accused of criminal conspiracy as
well.
Gulberg Society massacre:
Darkest
phase of civil society, says court
Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi, who face
life term till death in the Naroda Patiya case, are also
facing trial in the
Naroda Gaam case, in which 11 people died, which is the last
of the SIT cases
pending in court.
Between
the two verdicts, the NGO run by Teesta Setalvad, Citizens
for Justice and
Peace, has run into trouble with authorities. A day before
the Gulberg
sentencing the FCRA to the Sabrang trust Setalvad runs, was
cancelled.
Zakia Jafri, who lost her husband, a
prominent citizen, in this massacre, continues to fight
another legal battle
having challenged the clean chit given to Prime minister
Narendra Modi who was
chief minister in 2002 by the same SIT.
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