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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AHMEDABAD, India — The tableau was as improbable as it was grisly. The bullet-riddled bodies of four Muslims lay neatly lined up in the middle of a road. One of the dead cradled a machine gun. Bomb-making chemicals and a suitcase full of cash sat in the trunk of their car. Intelligence reports had identified [...]
The Gujarat government on Tuesday maintained that Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends killed in a 2004 shootout were terrorists and said it would challenge a report of a metropolitan magistrate that said the police shot them in cold blood. A day after the report by Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang [...]
The Ahmedabad crime branch police apparently has been caught on the wrong foot in requesting the then Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) to hold an enquiry into the June 15, 2004, “police encounter” of Ishrat Jehan and three others near the Kotarpur water works on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. According to the legal experts, the enquiry [...]
Thousands of liters of killer hooch, hundreds of illegal liquor dens, repeated tragedies killing hundreds, Gujarat is not yet ready to reconsider the liquor prohibition policy. Officially Gujarat is a dry state. And the official toll in the recent hooch tragedy has crossed 150 where hundreds are still struggling for life in city hospitals. It can’t be [...]
The Gujarat high court on Thursday set up a three-member team comprising senior police officers of the state to investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The team, consisting of additional DGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG JK Bhatt, has been asked to submit its report within three months. Ishrat Jahan, a student from Mumbai, [...]
The demolition of Champaner Dargah that had led to riots in the walled city areas of Vadodara more than three years ago may haunt political leaders and bureaucrats again. For, Gujarat high court has issued notices to the then mayor, municipal commissioner, police commissioner of the city on a petition filed by one Mohammad Arif [...]
Activists across the board have criticised the constitution of a one-man judicial commission to probe ghettoization in the state. Mukul Sinha of the Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) said, “All the commission will achieve is aggravating the situation. This is clearly a political hypocrisy. It is going to start a debate, which ought to have never [...]
