----- Original Message -----
From: Niloufer Bhagwat
To: Feroze Mithiborwala
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Shahid Azmi murder : fact finding committee team
First representation to the UNION HOME MINISTRY and LAW MINISTRY.Get the
Jamiat-Ulema- E Hind involved
they are a political organization which supports the Congress party , with
lakhs of members they cannot wash their hands off the issueas the entire
burden of giving legal assistance to innocent persons framed up fell on the
shoulders of Shahid Azmi.
There is a lawyer who is a Home Minister and during his tenure a lawyer has
been assassinated for rendering legal aid to the innocent and not only in
Mumbai there are reports from Karnataka that lawyers there too have been shot
at who were appearing for innocent persons framed by the saffron government .
What we are seeing is the operation of a state within a state .
----- Original Message -----
From: Niloufer Bhagwat
To: Feroze Mithiborwala
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Shahid Azmi murder : fact finding committee team
The Jamiat-Ulema- E-Hind and all other organizations with which Shahid
Azmi worked and gave legal Aid and assistance are duty bound to expose the
situation as it is they who had hired Shahid Azmi . They also have a duty to
politically expose what is happening in this region . The first representation
which should be made is to the Home Minister that there can be no functioning
legal and judicial system if lawyers , Judges among others required to appear
in sensitive cases are assassinated . If there is no functioning legal system
for sensitive cases , logically there has been a FRAME UP in which case how do
we say that democracy exists in regions of pogroms and bomb blasts .........
THIS IS A MAFIA OPERATION OF A STATE WITHIN A STATE .
----- Original Message -----
From: Niloufer Bhagwat
To: Feroze Mithiborwala
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Shahid Azmi murder : fact finding committee team
Dear Feroze ,
I have reflected on the proposal . I do not accept membership of this
committee as unless an inquiry by an independent agency with investigative
powers is appointed by the Courts , such an informal committee with no
investigative powers will not be in a position to investigate the truth and
the existence of such a committee will absolve official agencies of their role
in the process . The objective of any exercise is not to absolve those
involved .
Since he was conducting these cases of innocent persons framed up and
every case was sponsored by the Jamiat -Ulema- E- Hind which is closely
associated with the Congress Party , it is the Jamiat- Ulema- E- Hind which
must be associated with the fact finding as they would be aware of what
preceded the killing and the nature of threats which he received .At the same
time they have a duty to raise the issue in the appropriate judicial and legal
forums including with the National Human Rights Commission as raising it in
Mumbai will serve no purpose . There is a complete lack of confidence in
agencies and organizations in Mumbai .Similarly the other organizations with
which Shahid Azmi was associated also have a similar duty to follow up with the
issue before the NHRC or in the Supreme Court .
What is important is to follow up on the nature of statements recorded
during the investigation , the charge sheet filed in respect of this killing,
and whether the case will be prosecuted at all or end in any conviction
????????
Kindly inform all others concerned with the issue to whom you have
earlier communicated , that I decline to be a member of the committee , as no
purpose will be served by an informal committee , the issue is too serious .
Those closely associated with Shahid Azmi must collect the facts and move the
Courts , these can only be members of his family or the accused persons whom he
represented now denied representation .
There is a complete lack of confidence in the ATS and in the Crime
Branch in the context of serious incidents which have taken place in Mumbai in
the last almost five to six years , except the short period when
Jt.Commissioner of Police Hemant Karkare held office in Mumbai .
Niloufer Bhagwat
----- Original Message -----
From: Feroze Mithiborwala
To: Suresh Khairnar ; aslam ghazi ; arif kapadia ; chetna birje ;
reshma jagtap ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ;
[email protected] ; saeedakhtar ; [email protected] ; nilofer bhagwat
; mihir desai ; MIHIR DESAI ; Jyoti Punwani ; [email protected] ;
kishor jagtap
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 1:44 PM
Subject: Shahid Azmi murder : fact finding committee team
Shahid Azmi Murder
Fact Finding Committee
Dear All,
THIS IS WITH REGARD TO THE FACT FINDING COMMITTEE THAT NEEDS TO PREPARE
A REPORT OVER THE SHAHID AZMI MURDER.
SURESH KHAIRNARJI (9326555914) HAS KINDLY AGREED TO LEAD THE COMMITTEE
WHICH WILL ALSO COMPRISE, MR URAIZEE (98200 83885 / RETD JUDGE, HIGH
COURT), ADV. NILOFER BHAGWAT (98690 14020 / RENOWNED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST),
DANIEL MAZGAONKAR ( 022-25631022 / SENIOR GANDHIAN), ADV. SAEED AKHTAR
(9821075886 - WIDELY RESPECTED FOR HIS COMMITTMENT), ASIM SURODE (C/O - SURESH
KHAIRNAR / LAWYER), PRATIMA JOSHI (98212 63002 / RESPECTED SENIOR JORNALIST /
LIKELY POSSIBILITY IF TIME PERMITS), RENU BHATT (92233 85284 / LAWYER - HUMAN
RIGHTS ACTIVIST), MIHIR DESAI (98211 38056 / SENIOR LAWYER & RENOWNED HUMAN
RIGHTS ACTIVIST, AGAIN, WILL CONFIRM ON AVAILABILITY TODAY).
I WILL ALSO SPEAK TO JYOTI PUNWANI FOR HER PERMISSION.
THE ABOVE ARE ALSO REQUESTED TO ADD OTHER NAMES TO THE COMMITTEE,
ESPECIALLY FROM THE SECULAR LIBERAL FRATERNITY.
ASLAM GHAZI (98691 06329), RENU BHATT (92233 85284), SUDHIR DHAWLE
(93237 17601) & RESHMA JAGTAP (99676 08700) WILL COORDINATE THE SAME.
THE WORK BEGINS FROM MONDAY.
KISHORE & MYSELF ARE IN POONA, BUSY ORGANIZING A MASS RALLY ON THE 11TH
OF MARCH AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE & ARE NOT BACK IN THE CITY TILL THE 13TH OF MARCH.
THE TASK ENTAILS:
CONTACTING & CONFIRMING ALL THE MEMBERS.
A COMMON MEETING PLACE.
FIELD VISITS - THE TAXI MENS COLONY, THE LOCAL POLICE STN, MEETING WITH
THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, SENIOR LAWYERS, SHAHID'S FAMILY, COLLECTION OF
DATA-INFO ABOUT HIS WORK & CASES, POLITICAL LEADERS, SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS,
INCLUDING MUSLIM ORGS, EDITORS FOR THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON THE MOTIVE FOR THE
MURDER.
OTHER ISSUES . . .TO FINALISE TERMS OF REFERENCE.
WE REQUEST ASLAM GHAZI TO COORDINATE THE SAME WITH THE HELP OF RENU
BHATT, RESHMA JAGTAP & SUDHIR DHAWLE.
FEROZE MITHIBORWALA & KISHORE JAGTAP
9820897517 / 9324514101
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