Two words that have occupied the maximum space in the sphere of political discourse all across the globe in the last two decades are (1) Terrorism and (2) Secularism. ‘Terrorism’ appears to have replaced the word ‘communism’ which the west had identified as the main enemy till the collapse of the Soviet Union. Secularism is [...]
Jan Sangharsh Manch, an NGO Sinha founded with his wife Nirjari, has been instrumental in fighting the cases of riot victims. Sinha also participated in the Nanavati-Shah Commission inquiring into the riots. Since then, he has doggedly fought for reopening probes in the fake encounter cases, including that of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. What has kept you [...]
Around 400 activists of Jan Sangharsh Manch were detained by the Gujarat Police at Panch Kunwa area of Ahmedabad when they gathered to hold a Peace Rally around 5pm today. After 10 years of the Gujarat violence, when Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) put all efforts to bring both the communities together, over a thousand people [...]
Dear Narendrabhai Why do you have to undertake this “Sadbhavna Mission” by observing three days “upvaas”?? No other Chief Minister of the 26 States in India has to do such a “prayaschit” to earn sadbhavna! Have you finally realized after about a decade that all the so called “developmental” publicity cannot earn you the faith, [...]
Retired Supreme Court judge M B Shah, who has been appointed by the Modi government to head the commission to probe the charges of corruption against it is a familiar name in Gujarat. Justice Shah heads the monitoring authority of the Special Task Force (STF) appointed by the state government to probe cases of fake [...]
Gujarat IPS officer Rahul Sharma was chargesheeted for indiscipline on Saturday. He was chargesheeted for misconduct in taking away CDs from the 2002 riots case papers. The chargesheet came a day after Home Mininister P Chidambaram said that the Centre is willing to intervene in the IPS officers versus Gujarat Government fight. Sharma’s lawyer Mukul [...]
It has been claimed that more than one crore missed phone calls were made to Anna Hazare in support of the Janlokpal bill. Unfortunately, none of the callers could ask him whether scamsters like Ketan Parekh, Telgi or the late Harshad Mehta could have been booked under the law that Anna says will root out [...]
Certain intelligence records related to the 2002 riots and the documents related to the movement of the then intelligence chief of Gujarat, G C Raiger, have been destroyed, the additional director general of police (intelligence) has informed the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in a “confidential” report. The information was made public by Justice (retd) Nanavati on Tuesday [...]
Senior officer in the central Intelligence Bureau, Rajendra Kumar, has been named as an accused in the fresh complaint submitted to the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Saturday by Sabbir Mehtar in the Sadik Jamal encounter case. Sabbir is the brother of Sadik who was gunned down by DCB sleuths in an encounter in [...]
Gujarat High Court on Friday asked the chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) R R Verma to probe the retraction of statements by the witnesses in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Insisting on speeding up of investigation into the case, a bench comprising Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha Kumari directed Verma to submit [...]
