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: A week after the 31 accused were held guilty of conspiring and setting the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on fire in Feburary 2002 and killing 59 people, mainly kar sewaks, the special court in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail on Tuesday handed the death penalty to 11, while 20 other convicts were sentenced to life. The key conspirators given the death penalty include Razzak Kurkur, the owner of the Aman...
08:54 PM, Mar 01, 2011
Godhra: After nine years, 63 persons freed from all the charges in the Godhra train burning case can now walk free. All of them were brought to Godhra where they were welcomed by either relatives at around midnight on Tuesday. "I was in hell for nine years. Now, I am in paradise. I can't say anything more," said Mohammad Isaak Mamdu. But the question still haunts them - why were...
07:41 AM, Feb 23, 2011
Victims say nine years is too long for justice and they are not satisfied with the verdict. ...
09:20 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Godhra: Nine years after coach number six of the Sabarmati Express went up in flames killing 59 people. Sixty three people have been acquitted including Maulana Umarjee. He is accused of being the mastermind behind the train burning. In Godhra, his son Saeed said the courts have finally delivered justice to his father. Saeed Umarji said, "The police created the evidence and they never wanted the real story to come...
08:47 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Ahmedabad: Nine years after the Sabarmati Express burned on the railways tracks of Godhra, it was finally time for the verdict on what happened on the February 27, 2002. Who was responsible for the death of 59 kar sewaks and an incident that led to the enormous riots in Gujarat. The special court in it's judgment upheld the State police's basic claim that there was a pre-planned conspiracy to set...
08:47 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Ahmedabad: The timeline of events related to the 2002 Godhra train carnage case in Gujarat: Feb 27, 2002: 59 people killed as mob attacks S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express - en route from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad -- near Godhra railway station in Gujarat. May 22, 2002: First chargesheet filed by investigation agency, no mention of offences under the provisions of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). Dec 19, 2002: Second...
12:44 PM, Feb 22, 2011
Godhra: A Sessions Court at the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad on Tuesday delivered the crucial judgement in the Godhra train fire of 2002, convicting 31 people and acquitting 63 others. The verdict was pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge PR Patel, who convicted 31 people of criminal conspiracy in the train burning case. The court agreed that the conspiracy to set the coach on fire was hatched at Aman Guest...
11:44 AM, Feb 22, 2011
Godhra: Both the families of those killed in the Sabarmati Express fire, and those in jail for last nine years, on suspicions of setting the train on fire eagerly await the verdict. It's nine years since Sharifa Dhantiya waiting for her husband Abdul Rehman to return from jail - since the Sabarmati Express was burnt on the railway tracks of Godhra in 2002. Abdul helped douse the fire in the...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2011
Godhra: A special court will deliver the crucial judgement in the Godhra train fire of 2002, on Tuesday. The big questions that will be answered include whether the coach was set on fire in cold blood, or whether it was an accident. The truth about what happened on February 27, 2002, on the railway tracks of Godhra, has often been clouded by what followed in Gujarat. To unravel the facts...
07:18 AM, Feb 22, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the verdict in the Sabarmati train burning case, which was followed by the Gujarat riots in 2002. The apex court has also vacated its stay on judgments in seven other major Gujarat riot cases excluding the Gulbarg society case. Finally, it’s time for verdicts to be delivered in the 2002 Gujarat riot cases. The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday...
09:09 PM, Oct 26, 2010
SC has accused Kodnani of abetting violence in Godhra train incident. ...
07:01 PM, May 19, 2009
Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court rule Godhra not an act of terror. ...
08:55 PM, Feb 27, 2009
Nanavati panels says it was an act of terror but Gujarat HC does not agree. ...
09:11 AM, Feb 15, 2009
Nanavati report says there was fire on the floor of the coach but all injuries reported were above the waist. ...
10:27 AM, Oct 02, 2008
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