New Delhi: The 1984 anti-sikh riots case will come up for hearing in the Delhi High court on Wednesday. The Court is likely to give an order on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's application seeking the quashing of charges in the Sultanpuri case in which 6 people were killed.
Sajjan Kumar has been acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan acquitted Kumar while convicting five others - Balwan Khokkar, an ex-councillor, Mahender Yadav, an ex-MLA, Kishan Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal - for their involvement in the case.
Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi, still faces trial in another 1984 rioting case. In a third case, Delhi Police has filed a closure report, saying there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him.
The case relates to anti-Sikh riots that had broken out after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. Gandhi was shot dead by two of her bodyguards at her residence in New Delhi....
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08:47 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict on Monday on a plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar against a trial court order framing charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case related to the killings of six persons. Justice Suresh Kait, who had reserved the order in December 2012, will pronounce the verdict at 10.30 am on Monday. Besides the Congress leader, co-accused Ved Prakash Pial...
01:44 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Another key eyewitness, apart from Jasbir Singh, in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots tracked down by CNN-IBN in December 2007 was Surinder Singh, who in that year was a granthi at the Gurudwara Pulbangash. On hidden camera, Surinder Singh gave a graphic description of how a mob led by Tytler killed three Sikhs on the street in front of the gurudwara. Just months after CNN-IBN aired Surinder's interview, he...
09:59 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Justice Nanavati Commission's latest order could prove to be a major embarrassment for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The Nanvati Commission has ordered the Gujarat government to set up a committee which will investigate the circumstances under which documents related to the 2002 riots in the state were destroyed. ...
03:51 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has admitted before Justice GT Nanavati Commission that some documents related to 2002 post-Godhra riots were destroyed by it 'in routine course'. This was disclosed on Friday in an order passed by the Commission on an application filed by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had sought inspection of certain sensitive documents pertaining to the riots. In its order today, the Commission referred to the letter...
08:54 PM, Nov 02, 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: 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: 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
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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine if the Special Investigating Team appointed by it to inquire into the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases can share its report with the Nanavati Commission, which too is probing into Godhra train carnage and the subsequent riots. A bench headed by Justice DK Jain said it will look into the matter, when the SIT approached it with a plea for its...
01:41 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday recalled its March 19 order seeking response of the Nanavati Commission and the Gujarat government on a plea for direction to the panel to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the 2002 riots. A bench of justices D K Jain and A K Dave on Friday said, "We are recalling our order dated March 19, 2012" and posted the...
06:25 PM, Mar 23, 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: National Commission for Minorities has summoned some former and serving Gujarat IPS officers in connection with the alleged destruction of crucial records pertaining to the 2002 Godhra riots cases. The Commission has directed IPS officers Sanjiv Bhatt (now suspended), Rahul Sharma and former State Intelligence Bureau Chief RB Sreekumar to appear before it in this regard. "I shall be deposing before the NCM on March 12. We have been...
11:38 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT reportedly giving a clean chit to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Saturday accused the state government and the probe agency of "destroying" records related to 2002 post-Godhra riots. In a letter written to the Nanavati Commission, Bhatt alleged the crucial records related to 2002 post-Godhra riots have been "destroyed" by Gujarat government and SIT. "It...
06:54 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has rejected the appeal of NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch seeking Chief Minister Narendra Modi's deposition before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in the 2002 riots cases. The Gujarat High Court has said that there is no need to summon or cross examine Modi in the cases. A division bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Sonia Gokani passed the order on...
11:28 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday reserved order on a petition seeking a direction to the Nanavati Commission to call Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots. A division bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Sonia Gokani reserved order on a petition by the NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), representing some of the riot victims. The court is likely to give its...
10:30 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court will on Monday hear a plea seeking direction to the Nanawati commission to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in the 2002 riots case. The commission is supposed to submit its report by March 31 when its extension ends. Earlier, the Nanavati Commission has indicated that it may submit its final report with regard to the 2002 post-Godhra riots by the end of...
12:27 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Nanavati Commission has indicated it may submit its final report with regard to the 2002 post-Godhra riots by the end of March 2012, the State Government told the Gujarat High Court on Thursday. The submission was made by government pleader P K Jani before a division bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala, while referring the letter written by the commission to the...
05:49 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt on Thursday sought his joint examination with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and ex-DGP RB Sreekumar before the Nanavati Commission in connection with the alleged undermining of judicial proceedings related to 2002 riots. In a letter to the two-member judicial panel, Bhatt said, "in addition to my deposition before the Commission, the latest affidavit of Sreekumar also clearly refers to the direct role of...
04:37 AM, Dec 16, 2011
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt on Thursday sought his joint examination with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and ex-DGP RB Sreekumar before the Nanavati Commission in connection with the alleged undermining of judicial proceedings related to 2002 riots. In a letter to the two-member judicial panel, Bhatt said, "in addition to my deposition before the Commission, the latest affidavit of Sreekumar also clearly refers to the direct role of...
08:43 PM, Dec 15, 2011
