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 [...]
HC admits petition challenging their dismissal for negligence Justice K S Jhaveri of the Gujarat High Court has admitted a petition challenging the dismissal of five police personnel on charges of negligence of duty as members of the mobile police squad of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. The five policemen are Jabir Shaikh, [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday’s Supreme Court order has rekindled the hopes of securing bail for close to 100 men lodged in Gujarat’s jails in connection with the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002. The Supreme Court’s decision where it upheld the constitutionality of the POTA Repeal Act and held the recommendations of the Central Review Committee [...]
AN OPEN LETTER TO RATAN TATA (Mukul Sinha) This is one letter I thought I must write. It is not often that people like Ratan Tatas’ write open letters and that to on their perception of the developmental model of the country. Curiously though, he addresses the letter to the ‘citizens of West Bengal’ [...]
A probable reason for the Godhra altercation, Nanavati rejected Sophia Bano’s attempted abduction testimony. AJIT SAHI meets her in Vadodara IT HAD all started with her, or so Justice Nanavati doesn’t believe. Sophia Bano SB Dhantia was to travel home to Vadodara on February 27, 2002 after Eid holidays when a coach of the Sabarmati [...]
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 Nanavati Commission’s findings on Godhra said that 140 litres of petrol were poured into the S6 compartment of Sabarmati Express to set it on fire at the Godhra railway station. However, official injury reports of 70 survivors of the coach S6 fire show that most burn injuries were above the waist. So could the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
