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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
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat unit of Congress today demanded that the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team prosecute Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots. GPCC President Arjun Modhwadia made the demand in a letter to SIT chief RK Raghavan. SIT is currently preparing the final report on the complaint against Modi and others, to be submitted to a magistrate's court, as ordered by the Supreme...
11:53 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil on Wednesday alleged that R K Raghavan, the head of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, was trying to shield Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots investigation. "The party said that Raghvan, who is being offered all kind of undue facilities by Modi government, was blatantly trying to protect Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other accused," Gohil told reporters after the Congress Legislature...
11:00 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court is expected to decide on Wednesday whether Chief Minister Narendra Modi will have to depose before the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission probing the 2002 riots case. NGOs had moved court after the Gujarat government refused to depose before the panel. Riot victims had earlier approached the High Court, seeking Modi's deposition before the riots inquiry commission. A division bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising...
07:42 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
Godhra: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday failed to strike a 'sadhbhavna' chord with the minority community, as evidenced by the minuscule turnout for his day-long fast on Friday. The community leaders in Polan bazaar, the area from where most accused of Godhra train burning incident hail, said they wanted to send a message to Modi government that Muslims were seeking justice, not just harmony. "By not attending the...
01:49 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Godhra: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that his state has shown India that the politics of development can work. Modi, who sat on a day-long hunger strike in Godhra on Friday as part of his sadbhavana fast, addressed his supporters, saying that votebank politics has not benefitted anyone; on the contrary such politics resulted in lack of development in several regions of the country. "If anyone has...
05:07 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday slammed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Godhra fast calling it a 'political drama'. Gujarat Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil also accused Modi of wasting public money in his fasts. "This is a political drama. Modi is wasting public money. Why is he not visiting any riot victims," Gohil questioned. Reacting to the arrest of six activists protesting against Modi's fast, Gohil said, "The arrest of...
12:06 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Godhra: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi began his day-long fast in Godhra on Friday, activist Shabnam Hashmi and five others were arrested on the outskirts of the city as they had planned to hold a parallel 'sammelan' to his fast. "They have stopped and arrested us. We just want to go ahead with our convention. I don't understand what are they afraid of? What are we saying?" asked Shabnam....
11:05 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Ahmedabad: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi gears up for his one-day fast on Friday in Godhra as part of his 'Sadbhavana' mission, the town has virtually turned into a fortress. The 'harmony mission' comes nearly a month before the 10th anniversary of Godhra carnage where 59 people, mostly karsevaks, were killed when the Sabarmati Express train was burnt on February 27, 2002. Local BJP leaders expect a crowd of...
06:02 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Monday dismissed suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt's plea for stay on ongoing criminal proceedings against him in a 1990 incident of alleged police atrocity that resulted in the death of one person. Bhatt, in his petition, had challenged the legality and validity of the order of a Jamnagar district court refusing to defer framing of charges against him in the 21-year-old case. He had...
11:48 PM, Dec 26, 2011
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: Some of the victims of 2002 Gulburg Society massacre have approached the Gujarat High Court, seeking a stay to the trial in the case till the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case submits final report before the trial court. Petitioners Rupa Dara Mody and others have challenged the November 18 order of the trial court rejecting their plea for stay and further investigation. Justice JC Upadhyay, who heard...
04:48 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court is expected to hear Sanjiv Bhatt's case on Wednesday. The suspended IPS officer had on Tuesday approached the High Court seeking a stay on proceedings in the alleged police atrocity case of 1990 in which one person had died. Bhatt has also sought a stay on all court proceedings against him, in relation to the two-decade-old case as an interim relief. The matter came up...
12:06 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to give its ruling on Monday on confirmation of death sentence, awarded to three convicts including a woman, in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. Ashrat Ansari (32), his aide Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were held guilty on charges of planting powerful bombs in two taxis which exploded at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on...
07:11 PM, Dec 11, 2011
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt has said the Godhra train burning incident could not have been a conspiracy as no one was aware of the return of the train. He claimed that the incident could be called a failure on the intelligence agencies part as even they were unaware of the train's schedule. "No shot of imagination, Godhra could have been conspiracy because no one was even...
11:31 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Ahmedabad: The special court hearing the Gulbarg Society massacre case related to the 2002 Gujarat riots has turned down a petition seeking a stay on court proceedings till the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team filed a chargesheet in the case. Judge BJ Dhandha, hearing the case, observed that the Supreme Court has stayed the pronouncement in the case and not asked to not continue with the trial. The SIT has...
12:34 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Mehsana: In the first verdict and sentencing in nine years in a post-Godhra riots case in Gujarat, probed by the SIT, 31 persons out of 73 accused have been found guilty and sentenced to life for the Sardarpura massacre in which 33 people were locked up and burnt alive. But the Mehsana court did acquit 42 others in the case, while 31 others were being released giving them benefit of...
09:46 PM, Nov 09, 2011
