Ahmedabad: A special CBI court here on Tuesday reserved its order on a revision application seeking the issuance of arrest warrant against IPS officer PP Pande, who is an accused in the 2004 alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others. Special CBI Judge Gita Gopi concluded the hearing and said that she would pronounce the order on May 2.
CBI DySP and investigating officer of the encounter case G Kalaimani had submitted a revision application challenging the order, dated April 25, of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) of the CBI court which rejected CBI demand for the issuance of arrest warrant against Additional DGP (Crime) PP Pande. Pande, a 1980 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, was Joint Police Commissioner in Ahmedabad in 2004 when on June 15 that year Ishrat Jahan along with Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter.
CBI, in its revision application praying for issuance of arrest warrant for Pande under section 73 of the CrPC, has claimed that the officer has been evading CBI and it has become necessary for the agency to seek court's help. "We issued two summons, on April 22 and 24 respectively, but he had not responded to it. When we went to his residence at Ahmedabad, his son refused to give us information about Pande's whereabouts and his official mobile phone is also not reachable," said CBI counsel LD Tiwari.
"Under these circumstances, where we
02:44 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Thursday granted two days temporary bail to Babu Bajrangi, sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, as his wife is undergoing a surgery. A division bench of Justices MR Shah and SH Vora allowed Bajrangi's plea, filed and argued by his son Viren Babubhai Patel. He would be out of jail on April 20 and 21. A trial court in 2012...
07:04 PM, Apr 18, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two police officers who were part of as many squads that took part in the alleged fake encounter of teenage girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 in Gujarat. The duo were already under judicial custody in another alleged fake encounter case of Sadik Jamal. ...
09:12 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The Gujarat High Court on Friday turned down the state government's contention that students belonging to the minority community cannot be given scholarships at the pre-matric level. ...
03:16 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The Gujarat High Court today upheld life imprisonment for five persons, who gangraped a 24-year-old city girl after a New Year night party in 2003, at a hotel, where she was lured by her boyfriend Sajal Jain. The Division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Mohinder Pal rejected the appeals of all five accused who had prayed to quash and set aside the sessions court order of June 2008. ...
05:20 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday tendered an oral apology to the Gujarat High Court on the issue of requisitioning of vehicles by it for the poll work, following which court reserved its verdict on the PIL challenging EC action. The division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the PIL which had challenged the EC action of on-the-spot requisitioning...
05:00 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear an Election Commission's petition challenging an order passed by the Gujarat High Court on cash seizures in the state. The electoral watchdog had challenged a Gujarat High Court order that had stayed the EC directive to seize cash above Rs 2.5 lakh if found in transit during the Gujarat Assembly elections. The Gujarat High Court, on a PIL filed by Bhagyoday...
08:52 AM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the Narendra Modi government to provide documents related to the police control room during the 2002 riots to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. Bhatt had approached the High Court seeking permission to get the documented records pertaining to the Gujarat riots. The HC directed the state government to provide the documents to Bhatt by October 19. Earlier, the Nanavati Commission had...
03:09 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Ahmedabad: Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) RK Patel, whom the CBI has named as one of the 20 accused in its charge sheet in Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case, on Tuesday moved Gujarat High Court seeking anticipatory bail. Justice Sonia Gokani, on the request of advocate Kirtikant Nanavati, who appeared for Patel, adjourned the hearing till Wednesday. On September 4, 2012, the CBI had filed a charge sheet in the...
05:41 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the state government's decision to give further extension to Justice GT Nanavati Commission, inquiring the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases. While dismissing the PIL, the division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala held that the state government was justified in granting extension to the commission. The government had granted 18th extension to the commission...
05:55 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: It's an order that will put vehicle owners in Gujarat in a quandary. The High Court has ruled that all vehicles registered in the state should be converted to run on compressed natural gas and it has set a one year deadline for this. The division bench which also includes the Chief Justice says, "The state of Gujarat is directed to pass necessary order compelling owners of all vehicles...
07:15 AM, Jul 26, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday froze three bank accounts of Essar Oil Ltd (EOL) in Jamnagar following Gujarat High Court directives to expedite recovery of over Rs 8,000 crore in sales tax dues. "Three bank accounts of EOL have been frozen in Jamnagar district as part of the due recovery process," a top finance department functionary said. The division bench of Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Mohinder Pal last...
09:41 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a snub to the state government, the Gujarat High Court on Friday directed that Governor Kamla Beniwal will take the "final decision" on granting sanction to prosecute minister Purshottam Solanki for his alleged role in a Rs 400 crore fishing contracts scam. The court, however, rejected the contempt plea against Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the state government's refusal to give sanction without the approval of the Governor....
05:01 PM, Jul 06, 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
New Delhi: The Gujarat Police Crime Branch on Tuesday gave a clean chit to BJP MP Dinu Solanki in connection with the RTI activist Amit Jethva murder case. The crime branch submitted its final report on Tuesday giving a clean chit to Solanki. Amit's father, Bhikha, had filed a petition in the High Court, seeking probe by the CBI or any other independent agency, in October 2010. In the petition...
05:34 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has issued a contempt notice against the Narendra Modi government in a compensation case regarding the 2002 riots. In 2011, the High Court had ordered compensation in a rioting case where 12 shops were burnt in Ahmedabad. But the Gujarat government did not comply following which the petitioner filed a contempt petition in the High Court. This has come on a day when the metropolitan...
02:22 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Sources say the SIT report has found no evidence to prosecute Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gulberg Society riots case. ...
11:36 PM, Feb 09, 2012
The three Karnataka ministers caught watching porn inside the state Assembly were forced to resign. ...
10:01 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday demanded resignation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the Gujarat High Court censured the state government for "inaction and negligence" during the 2002 post-Godhra riots. "After this observation of Gujarat High Court, Modi has lost all moral rights to continue as the Chief Minister. He should step down immediately. "The High Court has very categorically said that the Gujarat government failed and did not...
08:14 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday pulled up Chief Minister Narendra Modi's government, severely criticising it for inaction during the 2002 riots in the state. Directing the state government to provide compensation for the reconstruction of over 500 religious structures destroyed during the riots, the bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala also hit out at the state and the police machinery for their failure...
01:31 PM, Feb 08, 2012
