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 this month.
She sought rejection in toto of the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT on February 8, 2012. The Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra had ordered to hear the case on daily basis from April 24. "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, said.
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. The petition also sought further investigations into the case by an independent agency other than the SIT, headed by former CBI director RK Raghavan.
After the SIT submitted its final report to the Supreme Court, monitoring the investigations, it directed the SIT to file the closure report before a local court in the city and provide all papers to Jafri to enable her to file a protest petition. Jafri in her
10:39 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Ahmedabad: A local court on Tuesday granted more time to Zakia Jafri to file a protest petition challenging the Closure Report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi among others in the 2002 riot cases. The court of metropolitan magistrate BJ Ganatra on Tuesday directed Zakia to either inform the court about the status of the Special Leave...
08:20 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the apex court verdict which upheld the death sentence awarded to Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who defended him in the apex court as amicus curiae, said he "bows down" to the ruling. "I bow to the verdict of the court. As amicus curiae, I was given an opportunity to advance every convincing arguments, I could,"...
02:01 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots has concluded in its 541-page closure report that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took all possible steps to control the 2002 post-Godhra riots and questioned the motive behind filing a complaint against him by a riot victim four years after the communal violence. On Narendra Modi's role "Law...
12:26 PM, May 11, 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
The report of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran with respect to Narendra Modi's culpability in the 2002 Gujarat riots has galvanised those who were disenchanted with the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team's (SIT's) findings in the case. Modi's supporters, who were relieved at the SIT giving a clean chit to their leader, are also a worried lot. But these expressions of excitement and anguish do not have much basis at this...
12:22 PM, May 08, 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: Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. Read the full text of the final report: SUBMITTED BY: RAJU RAMACHANDRAN, SENIOR ADVOCATE (AMICUS CURIAE) I.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: 1.This Hon'ble Court vide order dated 27.04.2009 directed the Special Investigation Team [hereinafter 'SIT'] to "look into" the complaint submitted by the Petitioner No. 1 on...
02:34 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran on Tueday said that the complainant in the Gulbarg Society massacre case shouldn't be disappointed with the SIT report which exonerated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "It's a fact that there have been some areas of difference. The complainant has a right to file a protest petition. They can challenge the closure report. They shouldn't be disappointed," he told CNN-IBN. "I expect that my...
07:15 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has warned Delhi Police that if the information given in its affidavit about the midnight swoop on Baba Ramdev and his supporters at the Ramlila Ground on the intervening night of June 4-5 is found to be incorrect, the court will issue notices to the Home Ministry and the Central Government. In the affidavit filed in the apex court Delhi Police had claimed that it...
05:17 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The midnight swoop on Baba Ramdev was an organised crackdown to meet political ends, Amicus Curiae Rajiv Dhawan told the the Supreme Court on Friday. Dhawan claimed that Delhi Police official were in was in constant touch with the Union Home Ministry during the crackdown on Ramdev and his supporters on the intervening night of June 4-5 at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. He also pointed out...
04:08 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: There is fresh trouble for BJP poster boy and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots cases. According to Amicus Curiae report of the 2002 Gujarat riots case, the case against Modi cannot be closed. The report authored by Supreme Court senior advocate Raju Ramachandran indicates that Modi could be prosecuted under Sec 153 and 166 IPC for promoting enmity among communities and failing to discharge...
07:25 PM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court's amicus curiae has castigated the Delhi Police for its action on Baba Ramdev saying that the police used force on innocent people to break Ramdev's agitation at Ramlila Maidan. Amicus curiae Rajeev Dhawan accused the Delhi Police of perpetrating violence on innocent people during its crackdown on Ramdev. The amicus curiae, which means advisor to court, quoted from police wireless logs of June 5, the...
05:07 PM, Aug 29, 2011
