The Gujarat High Court Saturday served a show cause notice to the state government, asking why the probe into the mysterious deaths of two boys at a boarding school run by spiritual leader Asaram Bapu here should not be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The bodies of the Abhishek Vaghela, 11, and [...]
More than seven years after the communal violence in Gujarat, survivors have fresh hopes of getting justice as the Supreme Court Friday ordered the state to set up special fast-track courts to try 10 key cases and provide protection to witnesses. It, however, ruled out transferring the cases out of Gujarat. While giving its ruling [...]
Survivors of communal violence in Gujarat and their lawyers Friday welcomed the Supreme Court’s order to the Narendra Modi government to protect witnesses and set up fast-track courts to deliver justice. In Naroda Patia on the outskirts of the city, where at least 95 people were killed March 1, 2002, survivors were jubilant when they [...]
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 [...]
A minister in India’s Gujarat state, Mayaben Kodnani, accused over the anti-Muslim riots of 2002, has surrendered to police and resigned her posts. Ms Kodnani is alleged to have led a mob of rioters in Ahmedabad’s Naroda Patiya area. She denies the charge. Nearly 60 Muslims were killed in this Muslim-dominated area with more than [...]
Ahmedabad, Feb 25 (IANS) Abdul Sattar Quereshi, 40, an iron fabricator in the Naroda Patiya area here, vividly remembers watching his shop being burnt by a group of sword-wielding men who went about killing passersby early Feb 28, 2002. “I escaped being attacked and ran for cover. The narrow lanes of Naroda Patiya helped me hide [...]
Ahmedabad: It has been exactly seven years since the tragic train burning incident at Godhra. But now those arrested under charges of POTA have something to cheer about as the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court have ordered that Godhra was not an act of terror.Rehana Sheikh’s husband Anwar Sheikh was jailed for his alleged [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ahmedabad/GandhinagarThe minister was termed absconder by special team probing 2002 riots State Congress leaders on Monday reiterated their demand that Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani must step down after being declared absconder by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). Elsewhere, no one from the state government was [...]
