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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Civil society condemns GK Pillai's remarks

Civil society condemns GK Pillai's remarks

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published Published on Nov 24, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 24, 2011
-The Hindu
 
Civil society groups have demanded an apology from the former Home Secretary of India, G.K. Pillai, for his “insensitive, sexist slandering” remarks on Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in a fake encounter in Gujarat in 2004.

“Stung by the Special Investigation Team report, which concluded that Ishrat was executed in cold blood, Mr. Pillai — hard-pressed to defend his affidavit to the Supreme Court that Ishrat was a Lashkar operative — has now stooped to slandering the girl's personal life suggesting that her checking into different hotels with ‘another man' was definitely suspicious,” said a joint statement issued here by the Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association (JTSA).

“Perhaps, Mr. Pillai wishes us to believe that all those young women who travel and work independently are ‘suspicious' and could have terrorist links.”

He “is, no doubt, aware that questions will be raised about his affidavit — and also all those journalists who were churning out whatever that was emanating from his office — and is now rushing to hide behind sexist insinuations,” according to the civil society group statement.

The signatories are Jyoti Punwani (independent journalist), Githa Hariharan (writer), Kamini Jaiswal (senior lawyer), Uma Chakravarti (academic), Uma Saumya and Lalita Ramdas (concerned citizens), Kavita Srivasatava (People's Union for Civil Liberties), Uma V. Chandru (PUCL, Bangalore), Shabnam Hashmi (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy), Saba Dewan (independent filmmaker), Sabeena Gadihoke (Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia), Janaki Rajan (Professor, JMI), Anuradha Chenoy (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Seema Mustafa (senior journalist), Tahira Hasan (Tehrik-e-Niswan), Kavita Krishnan (All-India Progressive Women's Association), Rita Manchanda (South Asia Forum for Human Rights), Khaadeej Arif (journalist), Shikha Sen (independent filmmaker), Mansi Sharma (activist), Seema Duhan (activist), Madhu Mehra (Partners for Law in Development), Rochelle Pinto (Professor, University of Delhi), Mona Das (student, University of Delhi), Vani Subramanian, Satnam Kaur and Vinita (Saheli, Women's Resource Centre), Manisha Sethi, Farah Farooqi, Azra Razak, Sanghamitra Misra and Ambarien Al Qadar (JTSA).


The Hindu, 25 November, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2658748.ece


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