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 that [...]
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 under [...]
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 more [...]
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 [...]
A day after the Gujarat government announced its decision to set up an inquiry commission to study change in demographic patterns in the state since independence and identify the reasons behind the “polarisation” and migration of population, NGOs and human rights activists have reacted strongly to the move. They say the move is intended to [...]
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Gujarat Police suspects “black magic” at spiritual guru Asaram Bapu’s institution in Ahmedabad.
The CID became suspicious while probing the deaths of two boys, Dipesh and Abhishekh Waghela, at Asaram Bapu’s gurukul (education institute) last year.
"Some disciples of Asaram knew about it and were trying to conceal the information," [...]
Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a non-government organisation, on Thursday demanded further investigation into the 2002 Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya riot cases. It alleged that probes by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was “inadequate and incomplete”.
At a press conference here, JSM representative Mukul Sinha sought investigation under Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code [...]
The Centre today returned the controversial anti-terror bill passed by the Gujarat Assembly, saying it could not be sent for presidential assent without three key amendments.
The Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill has been pending with the Centre for over four years.
“The cabinet has approved the proposal to recommend to the President that the bill [...]
