The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a special probe panel to investigate the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and top state officials in the 2002 communal riots and submit a report within three months. A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly also ordered the Raghavan Committee panel, headed by former [...]
Narendra Modi,theBJP’s prospective candidate for Prime Minister, has come directly under the legal scanner in a riot case for the first time. The Supreme Court today ordered a probe into allegations that the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers aided and abetted the infamous Gulbarg Society massacre in which former Congress MP [...]
Senior lawyer Mukul Sinha, who has been the arguing the cases of the Gujarat 2002 riots victims in the high court, Monday welcomed the Supreme Court order to probe the possible involvement of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officials in the anti-Muslim violence that left over 1,000 people dead. “This [...]
Mallika Sarabhai, on Saturday, crossed the ‘border’ between ‘Hindu’ Shrinandnangar and ‘Muslim’ Juhapura with her supporters carrying placards displaying the message, lakirein mita do (remove the lines). Mallika expressed her regret that the two communities have been divided by a line, which has been popularised as ‘border’. She said these borders and divisions had been [...]
On this historical day of the United Rally of the workers-adivasis-minorites THE LEFT AND DEMOCRATIC FORCES DECLARE THEIR RESOLVE TO UNITE ALL THE EXPLOITED AND OPPRESSED CLASSES! EXPOSE THE CONSPIRACY OF THE RULING CLASSES! SMASH THE SYSTEM OF OPRESSION!! The Last two decades have been the most treacherous and [...]
Basis Paper for meeting on 28th Feb09. Gujarat was perhaps the chosen state by BJP and Sangh-parivar to experiment with the communal agenda and making it the launching pad for spreading “Hindutva” across the country by displacing the “secular forces” led by Congress. This choice of Gujarat became more a compulsion [...]
Ahmedabad, Feb 25 (IANS) Abdul Sattar Quereshi, 40, an iron fabricator in the Naroda Patiya area here, vividly remembers watching his shop being burnt by a group of sword-wielding men who went about killing passersby early Feb 28, 2002. “I escaped being attacked and ran for cover. The narrow lanes of Naroda Patiya helped me hide [...]
AHMEDABAD: The official death toll in the post-Godhra Gujarat riots will rise to four figures on February 28 – from 952 to 1,180 – when the stipulated seven years since the disappearance of 228 people will end, after which the missing persons will be declared dead. The communal conflagration in the state had led to [...]
Praful BidwaiOne can only marvel-if that’s the word-at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the social climate in state after state. Within months of taking power in Karnataka, it has unleashed savage repression and turned Mangalore into a Hindu Taliban bulwark, where women are attacked if they go to a bar, [...]
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 [...]
