There may be many a slip before the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Gujcoc) (Amended) Bill, 2003, passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, becomes an Act, especially with the new government at the Centre promising to repeal Pota. Framed on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999, it may [...]
HC admits petition challenging their dismissal for negligence Justice K S Jhaveri of the Gujarat High Court has admitted a petition challenging the dismissal of five police personnel on charges of negligence of duty as members of the mobile police squad of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. The five policemen are Jabir Shaikh, [...]
Was the burning of S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 a ‘pre planned act’ and ‘a part of a larger conspiracy’ as concluded by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in part one of its report? Or was it just a ‘simple case of unlawful assembly’ as held by the [...]
Tuesday’s Supreme Court order has rekindled the hopes of securing bail for close to 100 men lodged in Gujarat’s jails in connection with the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002. The Supreme Court’s decision where it upheld the constitutionality of the POTA Repeal Act and held the recommendations of the Central Review Committee [...]
P . O . T . A Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat. How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as [...]
An NGO today came out with its own report on the burning of the Sabarmati Express in 2002 and claimed that the incident was "not a pre-planned conspiracy", contradicting findings of the Nanavati Commission that inquired into the case. The S6 coach of the train burned due to flash fire that followed an initial ignition, [...]
Right from the day the Justice Nanavati-Shah commission was constituted in 2002, there was one lawyer who conducted it directing its course of investigation. Gujarat High Court advocate Mukul Sinha of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a former scientist with Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) turned lawyer, brought out most of the facts of Godhra carnage and [...]
In a huge setback to DG Vanzara and other accused policemen, a city sessions court on Friday asked Gujarat police to probe further the case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s fake encounter. It also granted a period of 90 days to submit its report. The order came when the accused policemen were getting desperate to complete the [...]
Would the Sabarmati express have met the same fate had someone aboard it not pulled the chain to allow the kar sevaks in, just after it left the Godhra platform? Or for that matter, would the S-6 coach have burnt had the desperate passengers, or someone outside, not opened the door? The fire on the [...]
Anti-Terror Laws Would GUJCOC inhibit the Growth of Terrorism? (Mukul Sinha) Opening Remark: The word terrorism in the modern times is really a gift from the American establishment after the 9/11 attack in NY that led to collapse of the world trade building. Be that as it may, without entering into the realities [...]
