Narendra Modi has been summoned for questioning by the Supreme Court-created special investigation team (SIT) on the 2002 Gujarat riots, but the initial euphoria among families of the victims and rights groups was tempered by the lack of an FIR against the chief minister that would have necessitated his arrest. Modi, 60, has to appear [...]
THE SIT WAS SUPPOSED TO PROBE NARENDRA MODI’S ROLE IN THE 2002 MASSACRE OF MUSLIMS IN GUJARAT. INSTEAD, IT HASN’T EVEN QUESTIONED HIM, SAYS SHOBHITA NAITHANI IN ROUGHLY two months from now, the special investigation team (SIT)— formed six years after two thousand Muslims were were hacked, burnt alive and raped during the month-long frenzy [...]
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 [...]
LAWYER- ACTIVIST Mukul Sinha and a Jan Sangharsh Manch ( JSM) delegation on Wednesday met R. K. Raghavan, chief of the special investigation team ( SIT), investigating the Gujarat riots. They submitted an application for further investigation under Section 120- B of the Indian Penal Code into the Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gam massacre and [...]
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 [...]
Even as the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has nearly completed its probe in nine of the most infamous riots cases, a prominent NGO fighting for the cause of the victims has alleged that the agency has not explored the ‘conspiracy theory’ in three cases of Ahmedabad. The NGO has said the three cases [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After Supreme Court ordered a probe into Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s role in 2002 riots, a rights group has once again moved an application before Nanavati-Mehta commission, seeking questioning of Modi. Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) lawyer Mukul Sinha put forth a detailed argument based on evidence provided in affidavits filed by police officers, already before [...]
