AHMEDABAD: Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) activists held ‘Sachi Sadbhavana’ protest at Sardar Baug opposite Roopalee cinema at Lal Darwaza on Monday evening where participants called Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s three-day fast in the name of ‘Sadbhavana’ a farce. More than 100 people, mainly riot victims and human rights activists, participated in the three-hour event. [...]
Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), an NGO, on Thursday demanded further investigation into the 2002 Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya riot cases, alleging that the probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was “inadequate and incomplete”. JSM representative Mukul Sinha, showing the phone call details of then state Home Minister, Gordhan Zadafia and IPS officer K [...]
Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a non-government organisation, on Thursday demanded further investigation into the 2002 Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya riot cases. It alleged that probes by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was “inadequate and incomplete”. At a press conference here, JSM representative Mukul Sinha sought investigation under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code [...]
Civil rights activist organisations including Jan Sangharsh Manch and Prashant have welcomed the decision of the Supreme to set up fast track courts for holding trial of important riot cases on a day-to-day basis. However, they said the appointment of judges should be done either by the Gujarat High Court or the Supreme Court Welcoming [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
SIT moves to arrest Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani and VHP leader Jaydeep Patel in Naroda Gam Case? Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani must step down after being declared absconder by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). SIT also declared Dr.Jaydeep [...]
Was the burning of S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 a ‘pre planned act’ and ‘a part of a larger conspiracy’ as concluded by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in part one of its report? Or was it just a ‘simple case of unlawful assembly’ as held by the [...]
I suspected some design when the Justice Nanavati Commission submitted only a part of the inquiry report on what was known as the Godhara incident. I could see the contents written on the face of a gleeful Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a photograph at the time of the report’s presentation. It was clear [...]
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS (Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra) ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH PREAMBLE: 1. On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying [...]
