Sitting in a cab or the more convenient three-wheelers called autorickshaws, while your driver negotiates the madness of India’s roads, you would be forgiven to think you are in your own city. For all Indian cities look the same. But it would be a mistake to dismiss Ahmadabad just like any other Indian city. This [...]
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a special probe panel to investigate the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and top state officials in the 2002 communal riots and submit a report within three months. A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly also ordered the Raghavan Committee panel, headed by former [...]
Narendra Modi,theBJP’s prospective candidate for Prime Minister, has come directly under the legal scanner in a riot case for the first time. The Supreme Court today ordered a probe into allegations that the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers aided and abetted the infamous Gulbarg Society massacre in which former Congress MP [...]
Senior lawyer Mukul Sinha, who has been the arguing the cases of the Gujarat 2002 riots victims in the high court, Monday welcomed the Supreme Court order to probe the possible involvement of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officials in the anti-Muslim violence that left over 1,000 people dead. “This [...]
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 [...]
Gujarat’s Minister of State for Women’s Welfare Mayaben Kodnani and State Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Jaideep Patel were accused of “leading and instigating” a violent mob to attack the minorities in Naroda-Patiya and Naroda Gaam localities in the aftermath of the Godhra train carnage on February 28, 2002. More than 105 people, including about 95 [...]
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 [...]
Stavan Desai and Sweta Ramanujan-Dixit , Hindustan TimesFebruary 23, 2009 Fighting for Justice Mukhtar Muhammad, 41 Footwear wholesaler When Mukhtar Muhammad drove his Tata Sumo through a burning mass of rubble and loot from shops in Panchmahal district to escape a murderous mob of rioters on February 28, 2002, he did not know he would [...]
Press Release The Trials and Tribulations of the Past Seven Years Seven Years back, on 27th February,around 8.30am in the morning, Mohamad Hussein Kalota , the then President of the Godhra Municipality was preparing to go to Gandhinagar to discuss with the Government about some problems of his Municipality. He received a telephone call from Godhra [...]
Ahmedabad : SIT records statement of Pande who was Ahmedabad police commissioner during 2002 riots The Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is re-investigating the nine post-Godhra communal riots cases of 2002, has recorded the statement of Gujarat Director General of Police PC Pande, the then Ahmedabad Commissioner of Police. Highly placed sources [...]
