The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Zakia Jafri, wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, was entitled to the entire Special Investigation Team (SIT) report barring comments of its chief into the Gulbarg Society riots case of 2002 post-Godhra violence. ...
04:19 PM, Feb 07, 2013
New Delhi: In what is being seen as a breather to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass any order on his alleged inaction to contain the 2002 Gujarat riots and referred the matter back to the trial court in Ahmedabad for a decision. The Supreme Court also observed that it will no longer monitor the probe now while hearing a petition filed by...
06:34 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Gujarat government spokesperson Jai Narayan Vyas said that the Supreme Court's decision shows that there is no evidence of criminal conspiracy against Narendra Modi. ...
04:23 PM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: RK Raghavan, the chief of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT probing some of the 2002 riots cases in Gujarat, on Monday said his team will do its "utmost" to assist the trial court in arriving at the truth. "The Special Investigation Team (SIT) will give our utmost assistance to cooperate with the trial court in arriving at the truth," said Raghavan, a former CBI director. Raghavan was responding to...
03:21 PM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has claimed that there is no evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case while welcoming the Supreme Court order directing the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to present its final report before the trial court in Ahmedabad. "We stand vindicated. There is no evidence against Narendra Modi. The due process of law has to be followed....
02:12 PM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: In a major relief for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to file its final report before the lower court in Ahmedabad while refusing to pass any order on his alleged inaction to contain the riots after the Sabarmati Express train burning incident. The BJP was quick to claim that the party's...
10:44 AM, Sep 12, 2011
