Citizens for Justice and Peace
Dalit youth assaulted: NHRC transfers CJP complaint to UPHRC The victim was accused of assault instead, and incarcerated on the complaint of his assailants!
12-Nov-2020
CJP moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the issue of caste based violence in a small village of Uttar Pradesh where a young Dalit boy was beaten up by ‘upper caste’ men. This complaint has been redirected and transferred by the NHRC to the Uttar Pradesh Human Rights Commission (UPHRC) for consideration and…
CJP moves MEITY against news channel for promoting caste supremacy in Hathras case ‘Best Hindi News’ channel had shared inflammatory videos on its social media platforms
14-Oct-2020
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has approached the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) with a complaint against Best Hindi News, a news channel that has used its social media platforms to share highly inflammatory videos that not only spread misinformation and ignite hate against the victim and her family, but also promote caste…
मरने के बाद भी दलितों की गरिमा पर ऐसी चोट क्यों? शव के साथ दुर्व्यवहार के मामले में कानून पूरी तरह पीड़ित के पक्ष में है
08-Oct-2020
मृतक दलितों के साथ भेदभाव बढ़ने की खबरें लगातार आ रही हैं. आखिर उनकी गरिमा और अधिकार के लिए कानून में क्या प्रावधान हैं. सीजेपी ने कानून के इन प्रावधानों की पड़ताल की है. सीजेपी का सवाल है, क्या दलित लड़की के शव के साथ किए दुर्व्यवहार के दोषी पुलिसकर्मियों को सजा मिलेगी? हाथरस में…
Hathras horror: News channel teams up with serial hate offender to spread anti-victim propaganda Best Hindi News promotes videos of Deepak Sharma supporting perpetrators, discrediting family of victim
07-Oct-2020
Deepak Sharma, claims to be the founder of Rashtriya Swabhiman Dal (RSD), an organisation that aims to protect the interests of Hindu dharma and the nation. He is a popular face in the right-wing social media circuits and is based in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh according to the Police but maintains that he hails from Jaipur…
Dalits and the lost dignity of death The law is clearly on the side of the family of the Hathras gangrape victim, having provisions for action against any section, that denies survivors dignity in death, protecting the rights of the deceased
01-Oct-2020
CJP looks at the law, including special protections for Dalits, in light of the increasing discriminations against even deceased Dalits, asking whether the guilty policemen will be punished? The country slept over the distressing news of the Hathras Dalit girl succumbing to death, after a belated transfer to the AIMS, Delhi, after she was allegedly…
To Be or Not to Be The Identity Crisis of the Non-Savarna Indian
16-Oct-2019
While for the Savarna Indian, to be without identity is an assertion of equality, for the vast numbers of Non-Savarnas, it is in the head-count that the quantum of caste privilege starkly stands out. The Good Since its inception, on paper at least, India’s Constitutional foundations declare its push to become a casteless society. The…
Manual Scavenging: Why the gov’t’s conscience is not clean about the Swachh Bharat Mission PUDR Report exposes stark realities
02-Oct-2019
On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission with the aim to achieve universal sanitation coverage within five years as a “fitting tribute to Mahatma Gandhi” on his 150th Birth Anniversary in 2019. While the Government lauds the success of the Mission covering 99.2 per cent of rural India in the last…
भीम आर्मी का कारवां पहुँचा भीमा कोरेगांव चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद के नेतृत्व में फिर निकली जोशीले मस्तों की एक टोली !
02-Jan-2019
देखिये किस प्रकार चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद के नेतृत्व में भीम आर्मी और उनके हज़ारों समर्थकों का कारवां १ जनवरी २०१९ को पुणे के नज़दीक स्थित भीमा कोरेगांव पहुँचा. ठीक एक साल पहले यहाँ भीमा कोरेगांव की लड़ाई की २०० वी जयंती पर आए हज़ारों दलित – बहुजन परिवारों पर पथराव करके हुम्ला किया गया था. पिछले…
ना रुकुंगा, ना झुकूँगा, ना बिकुंगा – चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद भीम आर्मी के सिंह की दहाड़
28-Dec-2018
देखिये किस प्रकार मुंबई पुलिस ने असंवैधानिक तरीके से भीम आर्मी प्रमुख चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद को उनके होटल में क़ैद कर दिया. आज़ाद दिसम्बर २९ को वोर्ली के जम्बोरी मैदान में होने वाली एक रैली में हिस्सा लेने के लिये मुंबई आए थे. मगर ठीक एक दिन पहले पुलिस ने रैली का आयोजन करने की अनुमति…
Bhima Koregaon Case: Bombay HC sets in motion bail for falsely implicated Dalit Migrant Workers Former employees of Reliance were first people to be picked up by cops
20-Dec-2018
Exactly 11 months after workers of Reliance industries were arrested on charges of UAPA and for their alleged connection to Bhima Koregaon case, the Bombay High Court, has, on December 17, has set aside a Sessions Court order granting extension of time beyond 90 days period for filing charge sheet. This will now make it…
EXCLUSIVE! Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case 10 months later, men still languish behind bars even as wives run from pillar to post for justice
16-Oct-2018
On January 12, 2018, two weeks after Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad program in Pune, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police picked up four workers of Reliance Infrastructure, one contractor from the same company and a casual worker. Their houses in the slum were raided in the middle of the night for hours before…
The Rise of Ravan A Timeline depicting how Chandrashekhar Azad became a force to reckon with
14-Sep-2018
On September 14, 2018, after spending over 15 months behind bars, Dalit leader Chandrashekar Azad ‘Ravan’ was finally released from prison shortly after 2 in the morning. Azad who had been accused of instigating the violence during the Dalit-Thakur caste clashes that took place in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh in May 2017, had been booked…
२०१९ में ब्याज समेत जवाब मिलेगा- चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद रावण सुनिए यह ख़ास ऑडियो इंटरव्यू !
14-Sep-2018
आधी रात को जेल से रिहा होने के बाद भीम आर्मी संस्थापक चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद रावण ने दिया अपने विरोधोयों को मुह तोड़ जवाब! कहा २०१९ में ब्याज समेत हिसाब पूरा किया जाएगा. सुनिए यह खास ऑडियो इंटरव्यू . और पढ़िए – दलितों की दशा और देश की दिशा रावण को आज़ाद करो अपने…
रावण हुआ आज़ाद – भीम आर्मी संस्थापक चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद हुए जेल से रिहा सर्वोच्च न्यायलय में याचिका दाखिल करने के ठीक एक महीने बाद, आधी रात को मिली आज़ादी
14-Sep-2018
8 जून 2017 को हिमाचल प्रदेश से गिरफ़्तार भीम आर्मी के संस्थापक चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ और उनके दो साथियों को तय तिथि से पहले ही बीती रात तकरीबन पौने तीन बजे जेल से रिहा कर दिया गया है. हालाकि नवम्बर २०१७ में उन्हें २० से भी ज्यादा मामलों में अलाहाबाद उच्च न्यायलय ने बेल दे दी…
The Curious Case of Milind Ekbote Prime accused in the attack on Dalits in Bhima Koregaon has a history of inciting violence
29-Aug-2018
The name of Milind Ramakant Ekbote surfaced once again after a period of relative silence—17 years to be precise– on January 1, 2018 when the violence unleashed against peaceful Dalits assembled at Bhima Koregaon to commemorate 200 years of the battle, was reportedly provoked by the machinations of extremists of the Hindutva brigade. An FIR…