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: A local court in Ahmedabad on Monday allowed Zakia Jaffery to examine documents submitted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to it in relation to closure report against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in riot cases. Zakia, wife of former Congress MP Eshan Jaffery killed in Gujarat riots, on Monday filed a revised application in the court of metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra saying that many documents...
11:10 PM, May 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: SIT chief RK Raghavan had found lapses on the part of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in his preliminary inquiry report into the 2002 riots case submitted two years, but gave him a clean chit saying there was not sufficient ground for any action under the law. Raghavan's comments on the preliminary inquiry report of the SIT were submitted in the Supreme Court in May, 2010, which mentioned that...
06:10 PM, May 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Supreme Court-appointed SIT has said 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. In its report submitted to a local court on the complaint of Zakia Jaffery, the SIT has said no charges levelled by the widow of former Congress...
01:55 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the case. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri...
10:19 AM, May 10, 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
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's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. According to Ramachandran the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) found that the conduct of certain police officials and public prosecutors were deficient while dealing with riots while commenting that offences can be made against Modi under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)....
02:31 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The verdict in the 2002 post-riot Ode killings will be declared on Friday. Three persons including two women were killed at Ode village in Anand a decade ago. This is the third case of the 2002 riots at Ode village being probed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). Forty-one people are undergoing trial in the case. According to details of this case, during communal violence...
10:19 AM, May 04, 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
Visnagar(Guj): A local court in Visnagar on Friday acquitted 109 persons who were accused of killing two people in Umta village of this taluka in Mahasana district during the post Godhra riots of 2002. Additional Sessions Judge KB Meghanani released all the accused giving them benefit of doubt in the case. The court said that the prosecution was not able to clearly establish the role of the accused. On February...
07:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: BJP may project it as a "big relief" to Gujarat Chief Minister, but Congress on Wednesday took a dim view of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT giving Narendra Modi a clean chit in the post-Godhra Gulberg massacre case saying it was not a court order. "It is not an order of the court. Many a time, courts do not accept the report of the CBI", party spokesman Rashid Alvi...
01:40 AM, Apr 12, 2012
The SIT report gives Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the 2002 riots cases. ...
08:55 PM, Apr 10, 2012
BJP leader Balbir Punj added that the BJP was proud of Narendra Modi for the statements and orders issued by him on the fateful day of the Godhra riots. ...
04:08 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Friday criticised the Nanavati Commission saying that in its interim report it exonerated Chief Minister Narendra Modi by way of a "clear overreach" of its mandate. In his submission before the Commission, Bhatt said, "It has come to my knowledge that the Commission, during the submission of its interim report, had by way of a clear overreach of the mandate, as provided under...
11:21 PM, Mar 30, 2012
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