Senior advocate Kapil Sibal was speaking at a People's Tribunal which was organised by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR), People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) on "Civil Liberty" in New Delhi on August 6, 2022. Judicial Rollback". The tribunal focused on the Supreme Court's 2022 judgment on the Gujarat riots (2002) and the Chhattisgarh tribal genocide (2009). Sibal criticised the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss Zakia Jafri's plea, challenging the SIT's clean chit to state functionaries in the Gujarat riots and upholding the Prevention of Money Laundering provisions Act, Which gives broad powers to the Enforcement Directorate. He appeared for the petitioners in both cases. He began his address by saying ...
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