Even as the Gujarat government is trying to explore legal options for Chief Minister Narendra Modi summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with 2002 riots, legal experts here believe that the CM has very few options. Modi has been summoned on March 21 by the Supreme Court- appointed SIT in connection with [...]
AHMEDABAD, India — The tableau was as improbable as it was grisly. The bullet-riddled bodies of four Muslims lay neatly lined up in the middle of a road. One of the dead cradled a machine gun. Bomb-making chemicals and a suitcase full of cash sat in the trunk of their car. Intelligence reports had identified [...]
The Gujarat government on Tuesday maintained that Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends killed in a 2004 shootout were terrorists and said it would challenge a report of a metropolitan magistrate that said the police shot them in cold blood. A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang [...]
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 [...]
Activists across the board have criticised the constitution of a one-man judicial commission to probe ghettoization in the state. Mukul Sinha of the Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) said, “All the commission will achieve is aggravating the situation. This is clearly a political hypocrisy. It is going to start a debate, which ought to have never [...]
A day after the Gujarat government announced its decision to set up an inquiry commission to study change in demographic patterns in the state since independence and identify the reasons behind the “polarisation” and migration of population, NGOs and human rights activists have reacted strongly to the move. They say the move is intended to [...]
It took more than 40 years for the CPI (Maoists), the metamorphosis of CPI (ML), to prove that history does repeat but it does so as a farce. In 1967, the peasant uprising in Naxalbari had sent red jitters all over the country whereas in 2009, the red has faded out in a place [...]
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 [...]
Gujarat High Court today issued notice to the state government on a petition seeking CBI probe into the death of two students of gurukul run by god man Asaram in Sabarmati area of Ahmedabad. The issue of the death of two cousins had led to violent protests by people and even the Ashram was attacked. [...]
The landmark order of the Supreme Court to reinvestigate the eight riots cases may have come a day after voting in Gujarat, but fears of this development having political ramifications in the remaining phases have not been ruled out.Speculations abound whether and how political parties will use this during campaigning for the remaining two phases [...]
