Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a non-government organisation, on Thursday demanded further investigation into the 2002 Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya riot cases. It alleged that probes by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was “inadequate and incomplete”. At a press conference here, JSM representative Mukul Sinha sought investigation under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code [...]
The Nanavati Commission on Wednesday set the ball rolling for summoning Chief Minister Narendra Modi for cross-examination to probe his alleged role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.The Commission appointed to probe the Godhra train inferno and the riots thereafter has directed the State Government to appear before it on June 22 so that the demand [...]
With Nanavati-Mehta commission admitting the phone call CDs submitted by IPS officer Rahul Sharma as evidence, the chief minister’s office could be in a spot. While Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) lawyer Mukul Sinha indicated that Chief Minister Narendra Modi may have been using the phones of his office staff and bureaucrats, he on Wednesday submitted [...]
After Supreme Court ordered a probe into Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s role in 2002 riots, a rights group has once again moved an application before Nanavati-Mehta commission, seeking questioning of Modi. Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) lawyer Mukul Sinha put forth a detailed argument based on evidence provided in affidavits filed by police officers, already before [...]
Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaideep Patel was in constant touch with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s office during the Godhra riots in the state, an affidavit filed by lawyer Mukul Sinha Wednesday before G.T. Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots said. Sinha, the counsel for riot victims, said that Patel, an accused in [...]
The hearing on an NGO’s application asking for cross-examination of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with 2002 riots, was adjourned till June 22 by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission probing the cases here on Wednesday. The commission comprising of retired Justices G T Nanavati and Akshay Mehta adjourned the hearing after the lawyer [...]
The Nanavati-Mehta Commission, formerly the Nanavati-Shah Commission which in its first report on the 2002 Godhra train burning incident had raised eyebrows by clearing BJP leaders of any involvement in the riots that followed, fixed May 20 for hearing an application on issuing summons to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and seven Cabinet colleagues for [...]
An NGO’s application seeking cross-examination of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots will be heard by the Nanavati Commission on May 20. Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), which has been contesting for the justice of riot victims before the commission, had first moved an application in August 2007 [...]
Justice Nanavati and Mehta Commission, which is probing post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, will hear on May 20 an application seeking cross-examination of chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 riots. The application was moved by Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) in 2007.The hearing will take place following the JSM filing a fresh application to [...]
Seven years after hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat were murdered in some of India’s most vicious religious violence since partition, the families of those who died are a step closer to justice after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of fast-track tribunals. Among the people to be investigated will be the state’s controversial chief [...]
