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 [...]
Panikkar was suspended following an inquiry that found him guilty in the Chandramohan painting row The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday passed orders for appointing a new inquiry officer for the fact-finding committee formed by the M S University (MSU) to investigate the suspension of Prof Shivji Panikkar of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA). [...]
The Gujarat government could be on a sticky ground while seeking extension for the police officers with controversial track record in the 2002 riots investigations. After the Centre turned down the request for extension of P C Pande and O P Mathur, who retired on March 31, the government has now sought permission of the [...]
The Gujarat High Court order cancelling the anticipatory bail of state minister Maya Kodanani could just be the first step in the downfall of several other VIPs involved in the 2002 riots cases, legal experts here said. Mukul Sinha, a lawyer representing riot victims, said the heat could now be on several BJP and VHP [...]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday issued notices to the Gujarat Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Keshav Kumar and Superintendent of the Sabarmati Central Jail, V Chandrashekar, over allegations of atrocities committed on prisoners. A division bench comprising Justice M S Shah and Justice H N Devani issued the notices after the preliminary hearing of [...]
A Division Bench of Gujarat High Court comprising Mr. Justice M.S. Shah and Ms. Justice H.N. Devani after preliminary hearing of a public interest litigation filed by Mr. Shamshad Pathan, a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch issued notice to the State of Gujarat, Inspector General of Police (Prisons) and the Jail Superintendent of Sabarmati Central [...]
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 [...]
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: It has been exactly seven years since the tragic train burning incident at Godhra. But now those arrested under charges of POTA have something to cheer about as the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court have ordered that Godhra was not an act of terror.Rehana Sheikh’s husband Anwar Sheikh was jailed for his alleged [...]
Stavan Desai and Sweta Ramanujan-Dixit , Hindustan TimesFebruary 23, 2009 Fighting for Justice Mukhtar Muhammad, 41 Footwear wholesaler When Mukhtar Muhammad drove his Tata Sumo through a burning mass of rubble and loot from shops in Panchmahal district to escape a murderous mob of rioters on February 28, 2002, he did not know he would [...]
