Ahmedabad, Sep 20 (PTI) An NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), providing legal assistance to some of the post-Godhra riot victims, today submitted a memorandum to Gujarat Governor Kamla requesting her to direct the state government to expedite prosecution of the riot related cases. A delegation of JSM members further requested the Governor to take action [...]
AHMEDABAD: Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) activists held ‘Sachi Sadbhavana’ protest at Sardar Baug opposite Roopalee cinema at Lal Darwaza on Monday evening where participants called Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s three-day fast in the name of ‘Sadbhavana’ a farce. More than 100 people, mainly riot victims and human rights activists, participated in the three-hour event. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Even as the Gujarat government is trying to explore legal options for Chief Minister Narendra Modi summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with 2002 riots, legal experts here believe that the CM has very few options. Modi has been summoned on March 21 by the Supreme Court- appointed SIT in connection with [...]
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 [...]
Gandhinagar, Feb 6 (IANS) Three personal secretaries to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday told the Nanavati-Mehta judicial enquiry commission, probing the 2002 Godhra train carnage and communal riots that followed it, that they had spoken many times to Vishwa Hindu Parishad state general secretary Jaideep Patel between Feb 27 and March 1, 2002. Patel [...]
