Ahmedabad:The minister does not turn up at a scheduled public meeting in Sabarkantha BJP leader and Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare and Higher Education, Dr Maya Kodnani, and VHP leader Jaydeep Patel, moved anticipatory bail pleas before the Ahmedabad City Sessions Court on Monday. This was done immediately after the Supreme Court-appointed [...]
STATUTORY PREVARICATION COMMISSION OR OMMISSION? (Mukul Sinha) Prologue: Six months back, when I was asked by Lassnet to send the summary of what I would be presenting in January, 2008, I had said that the Commission of Inquiries Act, as implemented in the present days, provided a convenient machinery for prevarication. I had even [...]
The Supreme Court’s decision to put a stay on the demolition drive by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has come as a breather for nearly 13 slum pockets, which is home to over 10,000 families in the city. With the state government aiming to make the city slum-free by 2012, the move may render nearly [...]
THE HIGH COURT INDICTS THE MINISTER OF PORTS AND FISHERIES FOR GIVING ILLEGAL CONTRACT FOR FISHING ON EXTRANEOUS GROUNDS In a significant judgement and order, the division bench of the High Court of Gujarat comprising Ms Justice R.M. Doshit and Mr.Justice S.D. dave squarely held the minister Mr. Purshottam Solanki guilty of granting contracts of [...]
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, [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
