
New Delhi: The Best Bakery case, in which 14 people were killed on March 1, 2002 during the Gujarat carnage, had become one of the most high-profile cases of the violence that erupted across Gujarat after the Godhra train incident. Following is the chronology of events in the Best Bakery case:
March 1, 2002: Best Bakery in Vadodara is burnt down by a mob, killing 14 persons.
March 2, 2002: Main complainant Zaheera Sheikh files first information report naming the accused.
March 21, 2002: Zaheera appears before National Human Rights Commission and demands justice....
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05:44 PM, Jul 09, 2012

Mumbai: Shaikh Yasmeen Bano, a key prosecution witness in the 2002 Best Bakery case, has moved the Bombay High Court alleging that she was "lured and misguided" by a social activist into giving false testimony against 17 accused persons, of which nine were sentenced to life imprisonment. Yasmeen filed the petition earlier this week, after no action was taken on her letter dated June 17, 2010 addressed to the Chief...

01:55 PM, Apr 29, 2011