Joint Protest To Demand Re-opening Of Pathribal Case & Repeal AFSPA at Jantar Mantar
Date : 1st February, 2014
JOINT PROTEST TO DEMAND RE-OPENING OF PATHRIBAL CASE & REPEAL AFSPA
JANTAR MANTAR, 1ST FEB, 11 AM
ORGANIZED BY:
SAVE SHARMILA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
ALL INDIA STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION
JAMIA STUDENTS SOLIDARITY FORUM
As another shameful incident in the world's largest democracy, the army has closed the court martial of its officers who were found guilty of fake encounter of Pathribal, J&K by CBI after which the Supreme Court of India had asked the Army to either provide sanction of prosecution against them or to do court martial for these officers.
It was one of the few cases that had managed to go up till the Supreme Court and in which the Supreme Court accepting the CBI version had directed the army to take action in 2012. But dramatically, after two years, the army closed the court martial file on 24 Jan 2014 and therefore to an extent has overruled the CBI and even Supreme Court. It is also to be noted that the army had also argued that no case can be registered against its officers under the veil of AFSPA as it provides impunity and that it requires prior sanction of central government to prosecute as per Section 7 of AFSPA.
This action of the army is against the ideals of truth, equality, justice and democracy.
Many individuals and activists from various states supported the demand. Few names include Antony Arulraj, Advocacy officer, Hotline - Delhi, Babloo Loitongbam, Human Rights Activist,Devika Mittal, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign,Dr. Raja Muzaffar Bhat, RTI and Social Activist, J&K,Dr. Walter Fernandes, Senior Scholar and Activist,Haseeb Mustafa Alvi, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign,Kamayani Bali Mahabal, Sr Advocate and Activist Kiriti Roy, Program Against Custodial Torture and Impunity,Kumar Sundaram, Activist, Co Editor-India Resists.Com,Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People's Movement ,Prithvi Sharma, Indian Community Activists Network ,Prof. Nandini Sundar, Acdemician- Delhi University, Activist,Prof. Ritu Diwan, Academician-University of Mumbai, Activist,Ravi Nitesh, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign,Subash Mohapatra, Global Human Rights Commission,Suresh Bhat B., Human Rights Activist Tahir Ahmad, Mission Bhartiyam, J&K, Touseef Raina, Global Youth Foundation, Tanveer Hussain Khan, Political Activist, Srinagar, J&K V. Arun Kumar, Political Activist, Delhi,Wahid Dar - JKDYF and others.
Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign, a campaign demanding repeal of AFSPA, along with AISA, JNUSU, Jamia Students' Solidarity Forum and other groups condemns this and will organise a protest on 1st February, on Jantar Mantar, at 11 AM to demand:
*Re-open the Pathribal case
*Provide the sanction to prosecute the officers
*Repeal AFSPA from J&K and the North-East
We invite your presence in this effort for justice and democracy.
* This information was sent by Ravi Nitesh who can be contacted at ravinitesh(at)gmail(dot)com
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