Praful BidwaiOne can only marvel-if that’s the word-at the breathtaking speed with which the sangh parivar has vitiated the social climate in state after state. Within months of taking power in Karnataka, it has unleashed savage repression and turned Mangalore into a Hindu Taliban bulwark, where women are attacked if they go to a bar, [...]
The cop who watched people dying It can be seen from the location graph, of K.G.Erda, the PI of Meghaninagar where the massacre at Gulberg Society had happened on 28.2.2002, had mostly stayed at Gulberg Society with few policemen at his disposal. In his affidavit before Nanavati commission he has stated that around [...]
AHMEDABAD (SANA): Indian Gujarat Child Welfare Minister Maya Kodnani, accused of instigating mobs during the Hindu Muslim Gujarat in 2002, has been given anticipatory bail by a session court on Thursday. The session court announced the verdict after hearing the anticipatory bail application of Kodnani. The minister was wanted by the Indian Special Investigation Team [...]
SIT moves to arrest Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani and VHP leader Jaydeep Patel in Naroda Gam Case? Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani must step down after being declared absconder by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). SIT also declared Dr.Jaydeep [...]
STATUTORY PREVARICATION COMMISSION OR OMMISSION? (Mukul Sinha) Prologue: Six months back, when I was asked by Lassnet to send the summary of what I would be presenting in January, 2008, I had said that the Commission of Inquiries Act, as implemented in the present days, provided a convenient machinery for prevarication. I had even [...]
Was the burning of S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 a ‘pre planned act’ and ‘a part of a larger conspiracy’ as concluded by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in part one of its report? Or was it just a ‘simple case of unlawful assembly’ as held by the [...]
Paragraph 229 Untold stories (Mukul Sinha) The eloquence of the Paragraph 229 of the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the Godhra incident lies not in what it said but in what it did not say. Ironically, in a hurry to absolve the Chief Minister, other ministers and even the delinquent police [...]
Justice JS Verma, who headed the NHRC during the Gujarat carnage, tells NEHA DIXIT that the Nanavati Commission Report is far from the truth You said only somebody ‘naïve’ could absolve the Narendra Modi Government and the police of wrongdoings in the Godhra carnage. Why? Because the report is far from the truth. Even a [...]
I suspected some design when the Justice Nanavati Commission submitted only a part of the inquiry report on what was known as the Godhara incident. I could see the contents written on the face of a gleeful Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a photograph at the time of the report’s presentation. It was clear [...]
Paragraph 229 (Mukul Sinha) (1) 229 may be a number that Narendra Modi would like to wear on his shirt sleeves as a lucky talisman. Of the 230 paragraphs that the Commission of Inquiry Chaired by Justice G.T.Nanavati devoted to the unraveling the “conspiracy to set the S/6 coach on [...]
