US-based Coalition Against Genocide (CAG), a broad coalition of over 40 organisations dedicated to the cause of justice and accountability, has condemned the report filed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigations Team (SIT) as shoddy investigation and a deliberate distortion of evidence. In a statement issued on May 11, CAG said:

The SIT’s closure report, on the complaint brought forth by Mrs. Zakia Jafri, is replete with inconsistencies, contradicting inferences and...

Expressing grave concern on the continued arresting of Muslim youth in the name of countering terrorism, Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president Jamaat-e-Islami Hind urged the Government of India to stop the whole on-going act of injustice and release all innocent persons with immediate effect and give them reasonable compensation. He was addressing a press meet in the capital on May 5. He also declared that the Jamaat will launch a nationwide campaign against the arresting of Muslim youth.<...

Farmer suicides have become an order of the day in our country. Every now and then, driven by the extreme poverty and inability to payback even the low rate of interest loans, farmers in many parts of the county are finding suicide as the only viable way to end their misery and sufferings. Famer suicides further worsen the situation as the families they leave behind generally have no one to take care which eventually increases more cases of suicides. A report by P. V. Deshmukh states that far...