An NGO’s application seeking cross-examination of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots will be heard by the Nanavati Commission on May 20. Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), which has been contesting for the justice of riot victims before the commission, had first moved an application in August 2007 [...]
Justice Nanavati and Mehta Commission, which is probing post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, will hear on May 20 an application seeking cross-examination of chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 riots. The application was moved by Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) in 2007.The hearing will take place following the JSM filing a fresh application to [...]
State Minister Amit Shah, who figures among 63 whose role in 2002 riots is to be probed, heads Legal Department that will make the selections The appointment of public prosecutors for the riot cases has raised legal as well as moral questions, given the fact that this has to be made by the state Legal [...]
High Court registry receives SC order on special courts The Gujarat High Court, as per the directions of the Supreme Court, will soon initiate the process of setting up six fast-track courts for the trial of the 2002 riot cases. A High Court official said that the HC registry received the apex court’s order on [...]
Following the Supreme Court direction to set up fast-track courts in the state for trial of eight post-Godhra riot cases, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is all set to approach high court authorities in this connection.A source close to the investigation said, "It’s sure that SIT will meet the high court authorities for appointment of [...]
Civil rights activist organisations including Jan Sangharsh Manch and Prashant have welcomed the decision of the Supreme to set up fast track courts for holding trial of important riot cases on a day-to-day basis. However, they said the appointment of judges should be done either by the Gujarat High Court or the Supreme Court Welcoming [...]
Seven years after hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat were murdered in some of India’s most vicious religious violence since partition, the families of those who died are a step closer to justice after the Supreme Court ordered the setting up of fast-track tribunals. Among the people to be investigated will be the state’s controversial chief [...]
The landmark order of the Supreme Court to reinvestigate the eight riots cases may have come a day after voting in Gujarat, but fears of this development having political ramifications in the remaining phases have not been ruled out.Speculations abound whether and how political parties will use this during campaigning for the remaining two phases [...]
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 [...]
