Ahmedabad: A city sessions court on Thursday acquitted 13 youths belonging to minority community from charges of loot and setting afire 100 shops during post-Godhra riots of 2002, for lack of evidence. The youths were charged for rioting, arson, unlawful assembly and loot of around 100 shops owned by Hindus in the communally sensitive Kalupur area of the city. Additional sessions judge HM Dholakia acquitted them as most of the...
11:40 PM, May 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...
11:00 PM, May 29, 2012
On alleged involvement of Modi in 2002 riots, the SIT had said that there was no material that will justify further action under the law. ...
11:54 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: In a jolt to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae has held that he can be prosecuted for his role during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The report by Raju Ramchandran is in sharp contrast to the report of the SIT, also appointed by the Supreme Court, which had given a clean chit to Modi. Both reports were finally handed over to Zakia Jaffri on...
09:15 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has approached the President on the 2002 post-Godhra riots probe. In a letter to President Pratibha Patil, Bhatt has sought probe against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bhatt has sought that the Centre appoints a two-member commission to probe the role and conduct of Modi and his Cabinet, officials, police officers in the Godhra incident and the subsequent riots. He has also...
06:21 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: A Gujarat court will pronounce the quantum of punishment in the Ode massacre during the 2002 riots, on Thursday. The court had on Monday convicted 23 people on charges of conspiracy, rioting and unlawful assembly. An equal number were acquitted for the incident in which 23 people were burnt alive. A total of 47 people had been chargesheeted in the case. While one person died during the course of...
09:42 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Wednesday demanded that Nanavati Commission, which is probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the basis of allegations made by late Amarsinh Chaudhary, a former Gujarat Chief Minister. Bhatt sent a letter to the Commission on Wednesday, along with a copy of Chaudhary's affidavit. The letter said "the affidavit clearly delineates the deliberate inaction on the part of Chief...
01:48 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Washington: A US City Council has passed a resolution condemning the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat and expressed concern over the "denial" of justice for the victims. The resolution, passed this week by the City Council of Harvey, Illinois, expressed solidarity with the victims, including those who died in the Godhra train fire on February 27, 2002. "The Harvey City Council condemns the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 as a gross...
11:48 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court is set to hear Zakia Jafri's new plea seeking access to the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre case on Tuesday. Zakia is the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri. The SIT may submit its reply on Tuesday. Zakia has accused 64 senior politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of committing crimes during the riots. Zakia has now asked the Supreme Court to order...
07:12 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: A magisterial court in Ahmedabad rejected Zakia Jafri's plea to open the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots in court. The court has said that the SIT will submit its final report on March 15 and Zakia Jafri can apply for a copy of the report after March 15. Zakia Jafri and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed...
03:20 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Revisiting the Gujarat riots on its 10th anniversary, BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said many people were "misled" into a "retaliatory action" after the Godhra train attack but he did not share the view that Chief Minister Narendra Modi failed to act. Jaitley also alleged that the media has ignored the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which convictions were "negligble" but continued to highlight the 2002 post-Godhra riots...
02:33 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court will hear a fresh petition filed by the family of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri on Wednesday. Zakia Jafri and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed an application in the Metropolitan Court in Ahmedabad on Thursday stating that they have an apprehension that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has not filed the complete report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as directed by...
07:59 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Godhra: Ten years since the train burning incident in Godhra, CNN-IBN visited the town to find examples of communal harmony, Hindu-Muslim friendships and partnership in business, which survived the communal fire. They are enduring examples of harmony in a town, which is struggling to get over the past and communal divide. In a town made infamous by the incident that sparked off the Gujarat riots, Badri minerals stands as a...
11:54 AM, Feb 27, 2012
A witness and a prominent reporter of the 2002 carnage, Rajdeep Sardesai revisits Gujarat. Watch a CNN-IBN special show 'Ground Zero Gujarat' on Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 12 pm and Monday 9 pm. ...
02:21 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Activist Teesta Setalvad said that she was happy with the court order to give the SIT report to Zakia Jafri. ...
04:14 PM, Feb 15, 2012
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