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
New Delhi: The Gujarat Police Crime Branch on Tuesday gave a clean chit to BJP MP Dinu Solanki in connection with the RTI activist Amit Jethva murder case. The crime branch submitted its final report on Tuesday giving a clean chit to Solanki. Amit's father, Bhikha, had filed a petition in the High Court, seeking probe by the CBI or any other independent agency, in October 2010. In the petition...
05:34 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has issued a contempt notice against the Narendra Modi government in a compensation case regarding the 2002 riots. In 2011, the High Court had ordered compensation in a rioting case where 12 shops were burnt in Ahmedabad. But the Gujarat government did not comply following which the petitioner filed a contempt petition in the High Court. This has come on a day when the metropolitan...
02:22 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Sources say the SIT report has found no evidence to prosecute Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gulberg Society riots case. ...
11:36 PM, Feb 09, 2012
The three Karnataka ministers caught watching porn inside the state Assembly were forced to resign. ...
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 state government has informed the Gujarat High Court that 21 thalassemia-affected kids from Junagadh, who allegedly contracted HIV during blood transfusions, could get free treatment in four state-run hospitals. The statement was made before the division bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala on Thursday. The application for free treatment had been made by advocate Girish Das during the hearing on public interest litigations...
07:11 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will start hearing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's plea challenging the Gujarat High Court's order upholding the appoint mruled on Friday it will start the hearing in Gujarat Lokayukta appointment case from February 20 onwards. The Modi government had filed an appeal challenging the Gujarat High Court's order upholding the appointment of Justice RA Mehta as the Gujarat Lokayukta. Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal had appointed...
01:13 PM, Feb 03, 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
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday stepped up attack on Narendra Modi asserting that the Gujarat Chief Minister has no moral right to continue in office in the wake of the High Court judgement upholding appointment of the Lokayukta. "Morally, Modi has no right to continue and he should resign," party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters here. He said that the Gujarat government approaching the Supreme Court to challenge the...
10:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a major setback for the Narendra Modi government, the High Court on Wednesday upheld the appointment of Justice (retired) RA Mehta as the state Lokayukta, turning down the state government's argument that it was unconstitutional. On August 27, 2011, the Modi government moved the High Court challenging Governor Beniwal's decision to appoint Mehta as the Lokayukta. The state government and the BJP argued the Governor's move was unconstitutional...
11:29 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Two petitions filed against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi are likely to come up for hearing in the High Court on Tuesday. The petitions were filed against Modi for criminal contempt of court as he allegedly disclosed contents of his correspondence with the Gujarat governor on the appointment of the state Lokayukta to the Prime Minister, even when the matter was already pending before the High Court. Modi...
07:19 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team constituted to probe Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case is set to take control of the investigation from Thursday. The case was transferred to the crime branch after SIT had lodged a complaint declaring that the encounter was fake. The CBI so far has registered a case against 20 Gujarat police officers on grounds of murder and destruction of evidence. The CBI...
06:48 AM, Jan 05, 2012
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