NAGPUR: Civil rights attorney Mukul Sinha strongly criticised the Gujarat government in general and chief minister Narendra Modi especially for fanning rightist sentiments in the state and trying to influence the judiciary. Sinha slammed the Modi-led government in his speech on the second day of the two-day third national conference of Indian Association of People’s [...]
Narendra Modi’s appearance before the inquiry has dominated headlines across India. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the state of Gujarat and one of the most controversial figures in Indian politics, has faced investigators to defend his actions during communal riots and massacres in his state eight years ago. Modi, a rising star in the [...]
Civic body’s relocation of slum dwellers living along the Sabarmati riverfront has drawn flak from the affected families. As many as 200 families protested against the relocation drive of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) from their present location on riverfront to far off areas in Vatva, Naroda, among other areas with no livelihood options. They protested [...]
There is confusion about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s much awaited appearance before the Special Investigation Team on March 21. The SIT was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2009 to probe into the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. A well-informed source who is involved with the supervision of criminal cases of the Gujarat riots [...]
AHMEDABAD: A citizen body named Movement for Secular Democracy has presented a memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh demanding a CBI inquiry of the Babri Masjid episode and prosecution of the ‘architects of demolition’. The memorandum says that the central thrust of the Liberhan report has exposed the “shameless betrayal and desecration of the [...]
AHMEDABAD, India — The tableau was as improbable as it was grisly. The bullet-riddled bodies of four Muslims lay neatly lined up in the middle of a road. One of the dead cradled a machine gun. Bomb-making chemicals and a suitcase full of cash sat in the trunk of their car. Intelligence reports had identified [...]
NANAVATI COMMISSION DIRECTS OFFICERS OF CHIEF MINISTER’S OFFICE TO FILE AFFIDAVIT STATING THEIR TELEPHONIC TALKS BUT DECLINES TO ISSUE SUMMONS TO CHIEF MINISTER After about two years of Jan Sangharsh Manch making application requesting the Commission to issue summons to seven persons including the Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi for the purpose if enquiring into [...]
The Gujarat government on Tuesday maintained that Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends killed in a 2004 shootout were terrorists and said it would challenge a report of a metropolitan magistrate that said the police shot them in cold blood. A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang [...]
The Ahmedabad crime branch police apparently has been caught on the wrong foot in requesting the then Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) to hold an enquiry into the June 15, 2004, “police encounter” of Ishrat Jehan and three others near the Kotarpur water works on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. According to the legal experts, the enquiry [...]
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 [...]
