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 [...]
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 that [...]
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 under [...]
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 women [...]
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 of [...]
The demolition of Champaner Dargah that had led to riots in the walled city areas of Vadodara more than three years ago may haunt political leaders and bureaucrats again. For, Gujarat high court has issued notices to the then mayor, municipal commissioner, police commissioner of the city on a petition filed by one Mohammad Arif [...]
A delegation of Jan Sangharsh Manch consisting of Dr.Mukul Sinha, Shri S.H. Iyer and Shri Shamshad Pathan met Shri R.K. Raghavan, Chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court and submitted an application for further investigation into the larger conspiracy under section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code to carry out [...]
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 killed [...]
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 K [...]