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. [...]
The riot victims of Naroda Patiya have condemned chief minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Sadbhavna Mission’ saying ”there cannot be Sadbhavna without justice”. In an open letter to the chief minister, the victims have dismissed the mission as another publicity stunt and demanded that justice be done to them. The strongly-worded letter by the 2002 riot victims [...]
Although the removal of POTA charges from the Godhra train carnage case following a Supreme Court verdict has brought relief for the accused, the case is still stuck where it was six years ago after the Sabarmati Express train was set ablaze at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. Trial in the case, [...]
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, it may [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
P . O . T . A Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat. How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as [...]
