Communalism Repository > India: Criminal Charges against Narendra Modi
IMPLICATIONS OF THE DECEMBER 26th VERDICT The Indian Judicial system has a four level court hierarchy through which a complaint can be pursued. 1. Supreme Court 2. State High Courts 3. District and Sessions Courts 4. Magistrate’s Courts A complaint is typically pursued initially at the Magistrate court and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of India. The Zakia Ahsan Jafri case is pending judgment in the lowest court of India i.e. the Magistrate Court in Gujarat. Depending on the outcome of the case, either party may appeal the verdict in the Session’s Court in Gujarat and may pursue the appeal further through the Gujarat High Court and the Indian Supreme Court. Alternately, as has been successfully argued in the past with many of the cases relating to the 2002 Gujarat pogroms, the petitioner (Zakia Jafri and CJP) may appeal to the Supreme Court to move this case outside of ...