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Draft Model Law on Communal Violence
August 27, 2004 | 1 Comment
In late July, the Union Home Ministry announced that it had begun to draft a new law aimed at combating communal violence:
This follows the CMP commitment for enactment of a ‘‘comprehensive law’’ against communal violence which will provide for investigations by a Central agency, prosecution by special courts and payment of uniform compensation to victims.
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Aug
27
Gavai Submits Affidavit on Army in 1984 Pogroms
August 27, 2004 | Leave a Comment
In his affidavit before the Nanavati Commission, also investigating the 1984 pogroms of Sikhs in India, then Lt. Gov PG Gavai blamed Rajiv Gandhi’s government for delaying the deployment of the Army, thus allowing the massacres to continue without interference:
P G Gavai has blamed the Rajiv Gandhi government for the delay in calling in the [...]