Ahmedabad: A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri seeking rejection of the SIT report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the post-Godhra riots case is likely to come up for hearing in a local court on Wednesday. Zakia, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the Gulbarg Society riots along with 68 others, had filed the petition in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra earlier in April 2013.
She sought rejection in toto of the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT on February 8, 2012. The Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra had ordered to hear the case on daily basis from April 24, 2013. "It is most likely that SIT will start its argument as it will be opposing our petition," advocate SM Vora, representing Zakia in the case, told PTI. In her petition, Zakia demanded filing of charge sheet against Modi and 58 others whom she had named in her complaint filed before the supreme court on June 8, 2006.
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02:00 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Ahmedabad: Tremors shook Ahmedabad city and many other parts of Kutch and south Gujarat Tuesday afternoon, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) official said. "A powerful earthquake, with the magnitude of 7.8 on Richter scale, occurred at the Iran-Pakistan border area, the effect of it in form of tremors was felt in western, central and southern areas of our state as well," Deputy Director, GSDMA Gandhinagar, Birju Patel said. There...
06:12 PM, Apr 16, 2013
India has reacted strongly to a resolution passed by the Pakistani Parliament condemning Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's execution and demanding that his body be returned to his family. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that Pakistan has no jurisdiction over action taken by the Government of India against terror activities committed on Indian soil. ...
07:35 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Cricket is a big part of the film that tells the story of wastrel Ishaan's obsession with a talented Muslim boy he considers a cricket prodigy and wants to coach. ...
02:13 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Pakistan on February 11 reacted cautiously to the execution of Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, saying it did not want to "go into details" of his trial. ...
02:40 PM, Feb 11, 2013
An FIR has been registered against 13 persons for allegedly burning effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi protesting the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after he was detained following the hanging of Afzal Guru, Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani on Sunday said his detention by police happened because he had spoken to the media. "They did not want me to speak to the press, so they detained me," Geelani told IANS. ...
12:44 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Global human rights group Amnesty International on Saturday said the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru, convicted of conspiracy to attack Indian Parliament, indicates a "disturbing and regressive trend" towards executions shrouded in secrecy. ...
07:44 AM, Feb 10, 2013
As 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail in the national capital on Saturday morning, curfew was clamped across districts in Kashmir Valley. ...
11:57 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh has said that the body of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack, was hanged and also buried inside Tihar Jail due to security reasons. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 09, 2013
CRPF ASI D Santosh Kumar, who was one the security men at Parliament on the day of the attack and killed three terrorists, said that the execution of Afzal Guru was a strong message to terrorists. He said he was very happy with the decision. ...
11:14 PM, Feb 09, 2013
In a surprising move, Afzal Guru, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case, was hanged on Saturday morning. ...
09:46 PM, Feb 09, 2013
After years of uncertainty, the UPA government surprisingly decided to hang Afzal Guru on Saturday. ...
09:29 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Saluting the Indian law over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru hanging, actor Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday said the law should be followed and respected by one and all. "We all should follow the law. Whatever India has done, has been done within the ambit of the law," Bachchan said. ...
06:57 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Jaish-e-Mohammad militant Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday for his role in the deadly terror attack on Parliament in 2001, was remorseless when he was taken to the gallows in the morning. Senior Tihar Jail officials who oversaw the entire preparation for hanging of Guru said he was "very peaceful" and "calm" during the final moments and did not appear repentant. ...
02:56 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged to death on Saturday at 8 am inside Tihar jail. ...
02:00 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday expressed disappointment over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and appealed to the people of Kashmir to exercise restraint. "PDP is disappointed at the hanging of Afzal Guru. We had urged that political sensitivities should be taken into considering while taking a decision on his clemency plea," PDP spokesman Nayeem Akhtar said. ...
01:38 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Saturday announced four-day mourning on the death of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning following his conviction in the Parliament attack case. "We call on people to observe four-day mourning on the hanging of Guru. A complete shutdown will be observed over the mourning period," Shahidul Islam, spokesman of the amalgam, told PTI. ...
01:32 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday at 8 am in Tihar jail. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 09, 2013
