Ahmedabad: After a U-turn by the Gujarat government on the death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani and nine others, convicted in 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, the SIT has decided to seek Supreme Court's guidance on the issue. "Very soon, we are going to file an application before the special bench of the Supreme Court apprising it about the recent Gujarat Government's decision to withdraw the sanction for filing appeal in the Naroda Patiya case," a top SIT official to PTI.
He was responding to a query whether SIT has filed a petition in the apex court in this regard or not. "We are not filing any petition because we are neither a party nor a respondent in the matter. But as we are Supreme Court appointed officers for the case we will file an application seeking judicial guidance on this matter," he said.
"We will file an application before the special bench of the apex court comprising Justices P Sathsivam, MY Iqbal and Ranjana Desai," the SIT official said. Under attack from right wing groups, the Gujarat government on Monday had said it has withheld its decision to seek death penalty for former minister Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and eight others in the riot case.
Earlier, the state government had given its consent to Supreme Court-appointed SIT to file an appeal in the High Court seeking capital punishment for Kodnani, Bajrangi and others, who were awarded life term by a lower court. State Finance Minister and
06:42 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday flayed Gujarat government for withholding its decision to seek death for Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya case, saying there has been no change in the mindset of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his feelings about a community. "It proves that Modi has not changed. He was like this in the past and will remain so in the future. There has been no change in...
02:14 PM, May 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: There is trouble for former Gujarat Women and Child Development Minister Maya Kodnani as the Special Investigation Team probing the 2002 riots will move the Gujarat High Court seeking death for her in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. The approval for this was given by the legal department of the Gujarat government. The SIT also wants death for Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and eight others convicted. 97 persons...
08:21 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Seven persons were injured when they were allegedly assaulted by Bajrang Dal activists during an attack on a Christian prayer house at Moodubelle in Udupi district, on suspicion that conversion activities were being carried out there, police said on Saturday. ...
05:43 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Saffron activists on Thursday held demonstrations in Andhra Pradesh and forced young men and women who celebrated Valentine's Day to get 'married'. The activists forcefully married young couples when they were spotted together in public places in Hyderabad and across the state. ...
11:09 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The delegation wanted fool proof security for players from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Pakistan. ...
06:33 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hold over the Hindu vote bank in the state has made organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad irrelevant in the battle for Gujarat. He may have tried Sadbhavna Yatra to connect with the Muslims and for national political acceptance, but in the Gujarat elections it is not always about that same spirit. The Hindu Political identity is central in the Gujarati-Hindu electoral mindspace. And...
08:47 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 25 activists of the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday protested outside the Delhi residence of Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh asking him to apologise for his recent remark allegedly comparing temples to toilets at a public meeting on Saturday. Remarking on the lack of sufficient number of public toilets in India, Ramesh said that toilets were far more important than the temples...
01:21 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Betul: An activist of Congress' student wing, who was allegedly set on fire by Bajrang Dal workers in Shahpur teshil last week, succumbed to his injuries at Padhar Hospital in Betul. According to the police, the victim, an NSUI worker identified as Rahul Joshi, died late on Monday night. Police said that the victim had a fight with saffron workers over submitting a memorandum to an official on the issue...
10:15 PM, Sep 04, 2012
A decade after 97 people were killed in a massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots at Naroda Patya area of Ahmedabad, a trial court on Friday sentenced to life 31 convicts including BJP's sitting MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani. It's an unprecedented victory for the Special Investigating Team appointed by the Supreme Court and most importantly for the victims of one of the most ...
10:28 PM, Aug 31, 2012
While BJP MLA Maya Kodnani will stay in jail for 28 years, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi has got life imprisonment till death. ...
07:57 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: A trial court in Gujarat has convicted 32 people and acquitted 29 others in the Naroda Patiya massacre case which took place during the 2002 Gujarat riots. In a major blow to the Narendra Modi government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Naroda, Maya Kodnani, and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi, too, have been convicted in the case. Kodnani, who is the first BJP leader to be convicted in...
11:26 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Ahmedabad: It is the day of judgement in one of the most tragic cases in the 2002 Gujarat riots. A trial court in Ahmedabad will deliver its verdict in the Naroda Patiya massacre in which 95 people were killed mercilessly and the accused include a former BJP MLA and a senior state BJP leader. The case has been probed by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team. For Shakila Bano, eight...
07:12 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Guwahati: Normal life was paralysed in Assam by a 12-hour bandh called by the Bajrang Dal to protest the violence in the lower Assam districts where the situation was calm with no fresh incident reported on Monday. Bandh supporters burnt tyres and pelted stones at vehicles in different parts of the state following which the police took nearly 500 of them into preventive custody in Guwahati, Golokgunj and Agomoni in...
12:27 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Bhopal: The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday claimed that Congress workers under the garb of saffron activists may create "disturbance" during the day-long nationwide bandh on Thursday on the issue of steep hike in petrol prices. "We have received credible information that some Congressmen under the garb of VHP, Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal workers may create disturbance in major cities of the state to defame the ruling...
11:58 PM, May 30, 2012
HYDERABAD: Just when the dust seemed to have settled at the Osmania University following the controversial beef festival, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal on Thursday conducted a ritual at a temple adjacent the Arts College to purify the campus. Calling it a symbolic move, the VHP and Bajrang Dal activists conducted a Saraswati Puja at the temple near the Arts College and a Gomatha Puja at...
08:04 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The latest Tollywood film, 'Businessman', which was released all over the state on Friday landed in a controversy with the Bajrang Dal lodging a police complaint that one of the songs in the film contained vulgar words and conveyed unacceptable meaning. In his complaint to the Mahankali police, Dal city unit's representative Murali alleged that the song in question, 'Bad Boys...', was written with vulgar words and demanded action...
06:57 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday utilised the death of M F Husain to take potshots at the BJP alleging that the party supported Hindu "fanatic organisations" that acted against the renowned painter. "BJP symbolised that hardcore communal thought ...there were some reactionary organisations which took direct action against Husain." "The activists were from hardcore Hindu fanatic organisations which the BJP supports", Singh told reporters. Expressing his...
09:14 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Activists belonging to the Bajrang Dal turned moral police in Raipur on Sunday beating up couples celebrating Friendship Day. ...
11:41 AM, Aug 02, 2010
Protestors block main highway, force shopkeepers to down shutters. ...
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