Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), which has been contesting for the justice of riot victims, has filed an application before the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) demanding a thorough probe into the conspiracy aspect of 2002 riots cases. JSM’s lawyer Mukul Sinha told mediapersons on Thursday that SIT has not looked into the conspiracy of [...]
Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaideep Patel was in constant touch with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s office during the Godhra riots in the state, an affidavit filed by lawyer Mukul Sinha Wednesday before G.T. Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots said. Sinha, the counsel for riot victims, said that Patel, an accused in [...]
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 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 [...]
Basis Paper for meeting on 28th Feb09. Gujarat was perhaps the chosen state by BJP and Sangh-parivar to experiment with the communal agenda and making it the launching pad for spreading “Hindutva” across the country by displacing the “secular forces” led by Congress. This choice of Gujarat became more a compulsion [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Although the removal of POTA charges from the Godhra train carnage case following a Supreme Court verdict has brought relief for the accused, the case is still stuck where it was six years ago after the Sabarmati Express train was set ablaze at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. Trial in the case, [...]
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, [...]
