The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the state Advocate General when the time would be “mature” enough to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others before the State-appointed commission probing the 2002 Godhra train attack and the Gujarat riots that followed. Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya made the oral query to the AG while [...]
Gandhinagar, Feb 6 (IANS) Three personal secretaries to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday told the Nanavati-Mehta judicial enquiry commission, probing the 2002 Godhra train carnage and communal riots that followed it, that they had spoken many times to Vishwa Hindu Parishad state general secretary Jaideep Patel between Feb 27 and March 1, 2002. Patel [...]
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 [...]
Five years after she was gunned down as an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, Gujarat High Court has ordered a probe that would establish if indeed Ishrat Jahan was a fidayeen or simply a college student felled by trigger-happy policemen. The court has set up a three-member committee of senior IPS officers to investigate afresh the June 2004 killing [...]
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 [...]
The Gujarat High Court ordered the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday, not to carry out demolition work on any part of the historic Rani Sipri Masjid without consulting the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the mosque management. A division bench comprising Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice Akil Kureshi also directed the [...]
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Gujarat Police suspects “black magic” at spiritual guru Asaram Bapu’s institution in Ahmedabad. The CID became suspicious while probing the deaths of two boys, Dipesh and Abhishekh Waghela, at Asaram Bapu’s gurukul (education institute) last year. "Some disciples of Asaram knew about it and were trying to conceal [...]
You cannot get more thick-skinned than the state education department. Following a PIL, a division Bench of chief justices of Gujarat High Court KS Radhakrishnan and Akhil Kureshi had taken an assurance in 2006 from state deputy director of primary education that the latter would overlook appointment of trained teachers in all primary schools across [...]
You cannot get more thick-skinned than the state education department. Following a PIL, a division Bench of chief justices of Gujarat High Court KS Radhakrishnan and Akhil Kureshi had taken an assurance in 2006 from state deputy director of primary education that the latter would overlook appointment of trained teachers in all primary schools across [...]
The Centre today returned the controversial anti-terror bill passed by the Gujarat Assembly, saying it could not be sent for presidential assent without three key amendments. The Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill has been pending with the Centre for over four years. “The cabinet has approved the proposal to recommend to the President that [...]
