After the Ishrat Jahan episode, it was time for the encounter case of Sadik Jamal to be heard by a bench of the Gujarat high court. Justice Akil Kureshi started the hearing in the case on Friday but adjourned the same to August 6.
Earlier, Mukul Sinha, lawyer for Sadik’s brother Shabbir, in his argument read [...]
As 26th January approaches each year, we find little children in tattered clothes scurrying across the traffic signals to sell their tricolor merchandise to the occupants of the whizzing cars that stop at the red signals. The approaching “Republic Day” gives them some hope to sell their stock of plastic flags for perhaps a better [...]
While Jaswant Singh was rediscovering the virtues of Jinnah, the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat was busy rediscovering the “Hindu”. During his mid-September visit to Ahmedabad, he put forward an inclusive definition of the “Hindu”. Though not very original, he said that the word “Hindu” would include all those who lived in India including members of [...]
Thousands of liters of killer hooch, hundreds of illegal liquor dens, repeated tragedies killing hundreds, Gujarat is not yet ready to reconsider the liquor prohibition policy.
Officially Gujarat is a dry state. And the official toll in the recent hooch tragedy has crossed 150 where hundreds are still struggling for life in city hospitals. It can’t be more [...]
Various trade unions and other social organizations like Jan Sangharsh Manch rallied under the banner of TUCI (trade union centre of India ) to demand for just and proper labor laws to counter onslaught of globalization.
Over a thousand workers and other activist had gathered for a meeting at Juna Vadaj where several leaders addressed the [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To, 5.6.2009
The Editor,
Times of India,
Fadia Chambers, Ashram Road,
Ahmedabad.
Sir,
I am enclosing a response to the Edit page article “A change of Priorities” {TOI, Ahmedabad, 4.6.2009}. Please publish and oblige.
Yours sincerely,
Mukul Sinha
Priorities of Globalization
There is an old saying in Bengali that one cannot hide the fish [...]
Even as the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has nearly completed its probe in nine of the most infamous riots cases, a prominent NGO fighting for the cause of the victims has alleged that the agency has not explored the ‘conspiracy theory’ in three cases of Ahmedabad. The NGO has said the three cases [...]
The cop who watched people dying
It can be seen from the location graph, of K.G.Erda, the PI of Meghaninagar where the massacre at Gulberg Society had happened on 28.2.2002, had mostly stayed at Gulberg Society with few policemen at his disposal. In his affidavit before Nanavati commission he has stated that around 2.45pm when the [...]
JAN SANGHARSH MANCH
104, Maharanapratap Complex, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad- 380006.
Dated: 14.11.2008
To,
The Director General of Police,
State of Gujarat,
Police Bhavan, Gandhinagar.
Subject: The Proposed meeting of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, proposed to be held on 16.11.2008.
Sir,
Our organization has come to learn from a pamphlet circulated in Ahmedabad by Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS) that HJS has [...]
SESSIONS COURT AWARDS LIFE SENTENCE TO THE LABOUR OFFICER JAGDISH THAKOR AND THREE OTHERS OF LUBI ELECTRICALS FOR KILLING A WORKER AGITATING FOR MINIMUM WAGE.
The additional Sessions Judge Shri R.H. sharma convicted the labour officer Shri Jagdish Babubhai Thakor , his son Mukesh Jagdish Thakor, Shri Mahipal Chauhan, security guard and Rajubhai Madrasi for offences [...]
