The Gujarat government could be on a sticky ground while seeking extension for the police officers with controversial track record in the 2002 riots investigations. After the Centre turned down the request for extension of P C Pande and O P Mathur, who retired on March 31, the government has now sought permission of the [...]
Press Release The Trials and Tribulations of the Past Seven Years Seven Years back, on 27th February,around 8.30am in the morning, Mohamad Hussein Kalota , the then President of the Godhra Municipality was preparing to go to Gandhinagar to discuss with the Government about some problems of his Municipality. He received a telephone call from Godhra [...]
Syed Khalique Ahmed Posted: Feb 16, 2009 at 0327 hrs
AhmedabadCourt dismissed the ‘conspiracy theory’ in the Godhra carnage episode and also lifted POTA charges
With the Gujarat High Court knocking off the very foundation of the Nanavati commission by ruling that POTA did not apply to the Godhra accused, questions are being raised about its future. [...]
Ahmedabad: With the Gujarat High Court upholding the recommendations of the Central POTA Review Committee that there was no evidence to prove ‘conspiracy’ behind the Sabaramati Express carnage, it has set aside the ‘conspiracy theory’ of the state government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). The team comprised Rakesh Asthana, J K Bhatt and Noel Parmar.
The three [...]
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 lamented that despite the [...]
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
(Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra)
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH
PREAMBLE:
1. On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying the screaming headlines of the gruesome death [...]
Manch’s own report trashes conspiracy theory behind Godhra incident
The Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) on Friday rejected Part one of the Justice Nanavati Commission’s report on the Godhra incident. It said the report was a product of “unfortunate, manipulation of evidence” to reach a pre-ordained conclusion.
The JSM released its own report based on all the [...]
The report of Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta commission looks as if it has borrowed the theory of conspiracy stated in the police inquiry report of Dy SP Noel Parmar. At the time of the submission of the part report by the commission, we had questioned the urgency of submitting the report after waiting for [...]
Challenging the Nanavati-Mehta investigation panel’s finding that the Godhra train burning was pre-planned, human rights activists termed the probe report as “absurd” and a “travesty of justice”.”It is an absurd report,” said lawyer Mukul Sinha of the Jan Sangharsh Manch (JMM) who represented violence victims before the inquiry commission.
“The part one of the report is [...]
OMISSIONS AND COMMISSIONS
(Mukul Sinha)
The spectre of “Terrorism” seems to have finally captured the sensibility of the entire nation. All spaces, be that in the print media or the electronic media, be it in a public place or in a private drawing room, are fully occupied by this spectre; a sterile nation incapable of focussing on [...]
