New Delhi: Three days after Zakia Jaffri was given a copy of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Amicus Curiae reports in the 2002 riots, she filed a fresh application on Thursday. In her application, Zakia listed those documents that had not been handed over to her. She has asked for the preliminary SIT report filed by A K Malhotra dated May 5, 2012. The next hearing in...
05:44 PM, May 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The SIT closure report, which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in post-Godhra riots, has found faulted the Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae's finding that he can be charged with certain offences related to the riots. The amicus curiae (one who assists the court) has "erred" by relying solely on the statements given by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and concluding that certain offences can be...
11:55 PM, May 08, 2012
Ahmedabad: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT found no prosecutable evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The report is 25,000-pages long. The court has asked Jafri to file an application if she feels there are discrepencies in the report or that documents are incomplete, on...
01:49 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A trial court on Friday gave life imprisonment to nine people and acquitted 32 others in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra Ode killings. Three persons, including two women, were killed at the Malav Bhagol locality in Ode village a decade ago. This was the third case of the 2002 riots at Ode village that was being probed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team. As many as...
12:14 PM, May 04, 2012
Ahmedabad: Eighteen people have been sentenced to life and five other convicts given seven years in prison in the Ode massacre case in which 23 people were burnt alive by a mob during the Gujarat riots of 2002. The sentence was pronounced by special court judge PB Singh, who had convicted the 23 in the massacre case on Monday while acquitting 23 others. All the 18 were found guilty of...
11:40 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief Raghavan on Tuesday said that they have filed the closure report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as they did not find any evidence against any of the 58 accused, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "We have filed a report saying no evidence. Hence, we have filed closure. It is now upto the court to take a view. I am satisfied with...
06:45 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Terming as a "big relief" the SIT clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gulbarga Society case, BJP on Tuesday said ten years of vilification against its leader should stop now. "No evidence against Narendra Modi says the SIT appointed by the Supreme Court. A big relief for us. Ten years of vilification campaign must stop," Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj...
04:27 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court is expected to decide on Zakia Jafri's plea for a copy of the SIT report on the 2002 Gulbarg society massacre on Tuesday. Zakia, who is the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, has accused over 50 people of being involved in the post-Godhra riots and blamed Chief Minister Narendra Modi of not taking any action to prevent the massacre. Zakia's husband was among...
07:48 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: Twenty-three people have been convicted in the Ode massacre case in which 23 people were burnt alive by a mob during the Gujarat riots of 2002. Announcing the verdict on Monday the special court acquitted 23 others in the case. A total of 47 people had been chargesheeted in the case. While one person died during the course of the trial, two are still absconding. At least 23 people...
12:14 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: A special court in Gujarat is expected to deliver its verdict on the massacre in Ode village during the riots of 2002. At least 23 people taking shelter in a house were killed when a mob set it on fire during the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. While 47 people were charged with the massacre, two of them are absconding and one died during the course of the trial. The...
11:26 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Gujarat government and the Nanavati Commission, that is in charge of probing the 2002 riots in the state, acting on a plea by an NGO seeking direction to the Commission that Chief Minister Narendra Modi be summoned to court for questioning. A bench of justices DK Jain and AK Dave issued notices to the Commission and the state...
04:32 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Ahmedabad: Six persons accused in a 2002 riot case where a youth and his mother were allegedly burnt to death in Gomtipur area in Ahmedabad, were acquitted by a trial court for lack of evidence. Additional sessions Judge MP Sheth on Tuesday acquitted all six accused in the case on the grounds that the prosecution could not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt against those arrested and charge-sheeted by police....
07:41 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Washington: A Congressional resolution urging Gujarat government to restore religious freedom in the state has been introduced in the US House of Representatives on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of communal riots. The non-binding resolution (H Res 569) "recognising the 10th anniversary of the tragic communal violence in Gujarat" was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Keith Ellison, early this week. Unlike most of such resolutions, it...
07:56 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: A magisterial court in Ahmedabad is expected to deliver its verdict on Zakia Jafri's plea that she be given a copy of the complete report prepared by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the Gulbarg massacre case, 2002, during which her husband, Ehsan Jafri, was murdered. Zakia has also questioned if the report can be read out in court or not. The SIT has allegedly found no prosecutable...
07:06 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Ten years after the Gujarat massacre, how does the nation view Narendra Modi? Does he still face serious questions about his alleged role? Is he the best administrator in the country? Or can both coincide? ...
09:05 PM, Feb 28, 2012
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