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 [...]
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 Gujarat high court on Thursday set up a three-member team comprising senior police officers of the state to investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The team, consisting of additional DGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG JK Bhatt, has been asked to submit its report within three months. Ishrat Jahan, a student from Mumbai, [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To, 5.6.2009
The Editor,
Times of India,
Fadia Chambers, Ashram Road,
Ahmedabad.
Sir,
I am enclosing a response to the Edit page article “A change of Priorities” {TOI, Ahmedabad, 4.6.2009}. Please publish and oblige.
Yours sincerely,
Mukul Sinha
Priorities of Globalization
There is an old saying in Bengali that one cannot hide the fish [...]
High Court registry receives SC order on special courts
The Gujarat High Court, as per the directions of the Supreme Court, will soon initiate the process of setting up six fast-track courts for the trial of the 2002 riot cases.
A High Court official said that the HC registry received the apex court’s order on Monday, [...]
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 be facing such trial [...]
The Double Helix of Violence
(Mukul Sinha)
8.12.2008
THE FIRST HELIX
The arrest of Pragya Singh Thakur by the Mumbai ATS Chief Hemant Karkare for the 29thSeptember,2008 Malegaon bomb blast had cracked the very foundation of the propaganda regarding “islamic terrorism” that the Hindu rightist forces were building up for the past two [...]
INDIA IN A CENTRIFUGE
(The Secular Nation in Danger)
(Mukul Sinha)
INDIA perhaps is now going through the most severe socio-political crisis in the post Independence period. Never before has the moral and intellectual content of the Nation dipped so low. Never before has the Nation been so deeply inflicted by corruption, communalism and terrorism, tearing apart the [...]
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, [...]
By S.H. Iyer
Advocate
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND RIGHTS OF THE URBAN POOR IN INDIAN CITIES
A poor homeless person was sleeping in the premises of a court. The Marshal came and scolded him. He was asked to go away. The man who was woken up from his slumber said ‘I am prepared to leave [...]
