End Impunity for Mass Crimes, Table the PCTV Bill in the Upper House of Indian Parliament

End Impunity for Mass Crimes, Table the PCTV Bill in the Upper House of Indian Parliament

Institutional Measures to protect the Lives and Properties of Disadvantaged Citizens who are Victims of Targeted and Mass Violence during which bouts, officers of the state have shown overt or covert complicity; In short to breathe life into Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Indian Constitution (Right to Life and Right Against Discrimination and Right to Equality Before the Law)

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister,

Government of India

South Block, Raisina Hill,

New Delhi  - 110011.

We ask for your support to ensure that all Indian Lives are Equally Protected

One Million Post Cards to India’s Prime Minister against the Politics of Hatred and Division

To demand the

----       Expeditious Tabling of Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence  Access to Justice   and Reparations) Bill 2011 in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament)

The Proposed Law is designed to

Breathe life into Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Indian Constitution (Right to Life and Right Against Discrimination and Right to Equality Before the Law). *

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Dr. Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister,

Government of India

South Block, Raisina Hill,

New Delhi  - 110011.

Dear Prime Minister,

"The shameful spectre of recurring mass and targeted crimes with the complicity of state actors must be stopped.

We demand that your government fulfill its 9 year-old promise.

We demand that the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011 be tabled in the Rajya Sabha forthwith.”

Yours Sincerely.........

Sign Two Online Petitions

1)  Table the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice & Reparations) Bill in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian Parliament
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Brief Background:

After the genocidal pogrom of Gujarat in 2002, UPA I government in its Common Minimum Programme assured India’s minorities of a special law and well defined crimes to ensure that the perpetrators of mass and targeted violence are punished and fair reparations are made mandatory. This promise has been kept in cold storage for nine years. The recent perpetrated violence in the four districts of western Uttar Pradesh--Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Shamli and Meerut -- demands that India’s political class are compelled by People’s Voices to fulfill this long overdue promise. India’s National Advisory Council (NAC) drafted a bill in June 2011aimed at tackling communal and targeted violence and delivering justice and compensation to victims. 

The proposed Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence(Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011 brought in categories like sexual offences, hate propaganda, dereliction of duty and culpability of officials within its ambit, widening the spectrum of crimes that constitute targeted and communal violence. Most significantly it brought in both dereliction of duty and command responsibility to pin responsibility on public servants and political and non political actors who are culpable for fanning both hatred and the outbreak of violence.

While the Bill seeks to prevent all forms of violence against victims of majotaitarian politics, linguistic and religious minorities and India’s Dalits and Adivasis are sought to be protected under the proposed law. These are the most disadvantaged sections of Indias, weak against an entrenched and feudal caste and community driven politics that has led to the legitimization of political forces who espouse exclusivism and hate. The many incidents of violence targeting religious minorities in the past three decades – e.g., Nellie, Assam (1983), Delhi (1984), Kashmir(1989), Bhagalpur (1989), Mumbai (1992-93), Gujarat (2002) and Kandhamal,Orissa (2008) – as well as the failure of the police and justice systems to punish the guilty show the need for such a law to ensure accountability, due process, reparation, and protection of these peoples’ human rights.  

•           SAY NO to Violence, YES to Justice and Peace

•           Ensure an End to Impunity,

•           Ensure Accountability from Public Servants

Support the Justice for All Campaign

Supported by: Justice P.B Sawant (retired) Supreme Court of India, Justice Hosbet Suresh (retired) Bombay High Court, Justice S.H.A Raza (retired) Lucknow Bench, Allahabad High Court & Lokayukta, Uttarakhand, Justice Michael Saldanha (retired) Karnataka High Court, Justice Fakhruddin (retired) High Court, MP & Chattisgarh, Justice B.G Kolse Patil (resigned) Bombay High Court

*[Article 14 (The Constitution Of India): Equality before law: The State shall not deny  to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

Article 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth

(1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them (4) Nothing in this article or in clause ( 2 ) of Article 29 shall prevent the State from making any special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes

Article 21:  Protection of life and personal liberty No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.]