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 [...]
Never in his wildest dreams did IGP D.G.Vanzara ever think that some day he would be encountering the CBI. Between 2002 to April 2007, he was the de-facto Police Chief of the Gujarat State and no senior police officer would dare cross his path knowing his proximity with the Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi. First, [...]
The death of their teenaged daughter in an encounter by the Gujarat police in 2004 has failed to shake the faith of Ishrat Jahan’s family “in secularism and humanitarian approach”. The family, which said it was vindicated by a magisterial court’s probe that said Ishrat and three others were killed by cops, thanked the advocates [...]
It was just one man among billions who finally brought justice and peace to the family of Ishrat Jahan Shaikh, killed in a fake encounter on June 14, 2004. His name — Mukul Sinha. It was 4.30 pm in 2007 when Musarat Jahan, Shamima Jahan and a friend entered advocate Mukul Sinha’s Ahmedabad office. The [...]
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 [...]
Senior advocate and human rights activist Mukul Sinha representing NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch(JSM) has claimed that investigations by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) into the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patia carnage cases on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city during 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat were “inadequate and incomplete’’. A total of 109 Muslims were [...]
Senior advocate and human rights activist Mukul Sinha representing NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch(JSM) has claimed that investigations by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) into the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patia carnage cases on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city during 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat were “inadequate and incomplete’’. A total of 109 Muslims were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
