The hearing on an NGO’s application asking for cross-examination of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with 2002 riots, was adjourned till June 22 by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission probing the cases here on Wednesday. The commission comprising of retired Justices G T Nanavati and Akshay Mehta adjourned the hearing after the lawyer [...]
State Minister Amit Shah, who figures among 63 whose role in 2002 riots is to be probed, heads Legal Department that will make the selections The appointment of public prosecutors for the riot cases has raised legal as well as moral questions, given the fact that this has to be made by the state Legal [...]
Following the Supreme Court direction to set up fast-track courts in the state for trial of eight post-Godhra riot cases, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is all set to approach high court authorities in this connection.A source close to the investigation said, "It’s sure that SIT will meet the high court authorities for appointment of [...]
Seven years after hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat were murdered in some of India’s most vicious religious violence since partition, the families of those who died are a step closer to justice after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of fast-track tribunals. Among the people to be investigated will be the state’s controversial chief [...]
Survivors of communal violence in Gujarat and their lawyers Friday welcomed the Supreme Court’s order to the Narendra Modi government to protect witnesses and set up fast-track courts to deliver justice. In Naroda Patia on the outskirts of the city, where at least 95 people were killed March 1, 2002, survivors were jubilant when they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There may be many a slip before the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Gujcoc) (Amended) Bill, 2003, passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, becomes an Act, especially with the new government at the Centre promising to repeal Pota. Framed on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999, it may [...]
The Nanavati Commission’s findings on Godhra said that 140 litres of petrol were poured into the S6 compartment of Sabarmati Express to set it on fire at the Godhra railway station. However, official injury reports of 70 survivors of the coach S6 fire show that most burn injuries were above the waist. So could the [...]
Right from the day the Justice Nanavati-Shah commission was constituted in 2002, there was one lawyer who conducted it directing its course of investigation. Gujarat High Court advocate Mukul Sinha of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a former scientist with Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) turned lawyer, brought out most of the facts of Godhra carnage and [...]
