Ahmedabad: A protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri seeking rejection of the SIT report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the post-Godhra riots case is likely to come up for hearing in a local court on Wednesday. Zakia, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the Gulbarg Society riots along with 68 others, had filed the petition in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra earlier in April 2013.
She sought rejection in toto of the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT on February 8, 2012. The Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra had ordered to hear the case on daily basis from April 24, 2013. "It is most likely that SIT will start its argument as it will be opposing our petition," advocate SM Vora, representing Zakia in the case, told PTI. In her petition, Zakia demanded filing of charge sheet against Modi and 58 others whom she had named in her complaint filed before the supreme court on June 8, 2006.
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02:00 AM, Apr 24, 2013
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch is likely to conduct an inquiry into activist Teesta Setalvad's collection of Funds for Gulbarg Society. The residents had alleged that Teesta had collected donations in the name of Gulbarg Society and had not distributed the money. ...
09:02 AM, Mar 13, 2013
It's been 11 years since the Godhra riots, but apart from waiting for justice, victims' families are now facing what they call another injustice. At a function marking 11 years of the riots, at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society, activist Teesta Setalvad was missing from the memorial service. The human rights activist finds herself at the receiving end after a set of Gulbarg Society residents sent her a notice, asking her to...
10:05 AM, Mar 01, 2013
The High Court is expected to hear on Tuesday the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) response to Congress MP's widow Zakia Jafri's petition against the clean chit SIT gave to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases. The SIT had earlier recommended that the case against Modi and 62 others should be closed. ...
07:30 AM, Feb 12, 2013
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
In yet another rape case in Karnataka, a 24-year-old married man was arrested on charges of abducting and raping a minor girl for eight days. The incident came to light after following the girl's return to her home on December 27, police said. ...
06:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to the activists seeking investigation against Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case, a Gujarat court on Tuesday rejected Zakia Jafris protest petition against the SIT closure report giving clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister due to lapse of time. In her complaint, Zakia had named Modi as prime accused and wanted him to be called for deposition. A metropolitan court rejected it saying...
05:23 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A couple set themselves on fire and the bogie that they were travelling in, in Gulbarga in Karnataka. The police claim they were facing opposition from their families, which forced them to take this step. Railway sources say that Shankarappa, a rickshaw driver and Varsha, a student, set themselves on fire as their families were opposed to their affair. "They set themselves on fire inside the bathroom, but came out ...
09:26 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Bangalore: In a strange twist in the October 16 Gulbarga station train fire incident, railway police has claimed that the blaze was caused by a couple who set themselves on fire in the train toilet. "The fire in the sixth bogie of the Falaknuma passenger train on October 16 was caused by two lovers immolating themselves in the toilet during its halt at Gulbarga station," Deputy Inspector General of Police...
04:21 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Railways have ordered an inquiry into the Gulbarga train fire incident on Tuesday which claimed two lives and announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 1 lakh to the next of the kin of the dead. Two passengers were charred to death and about nine suffered severe burns when a general coach of Solapur-bound Falaknuma passenger train from Hyderabad caught fire during its halt at Gulbarga station. "An inquiry...
07:38 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Bangalore: The Hyderabad-Solapur Falaknuma passenger express caught fire in Karnataka on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and seven others injured. The train caught fire at the Gulbarga railway station in North Karnataka. Two coaches of the train were gutted in the fire. The fire was brought under control as the train was stationary when it caught fire. Some passengers were stuck inside the coaches that caught fire. The...
03:49 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Gulbarga: Janata Dal (S) leader Arvind Naroni was on Wednesday stabbed to death by two persons near Aland Naka on the outskirts of the city, police said. The duo who came on a motorbike, accosted him near a shopping complex, stabbed him on the back and neck and fled the spot, they said. Naroni (52) was former president of the state unit of milk producers, Gulbarga. Police said an attempt...
12:40 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Gulbarga: The half devoured body of a one and half year old baby boy by a wolf was recovered from Belaur village in Gulbarga district on Saturday, police said. The child's mother had left it under a tree and gone for work in the fields on Friday when the wolf dragged it away, killed it, they said The mother on Saturday identified the child's body by the ornaments and dress...
12:58 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Gulbarga: A state of panic gripped Ingankal village of Chittapur taluk as three people have died of a strange fever in the past 10 days. District Health Officer Dr Shivaraj Sajjanashetty told Express that the first death in the village was that of a 70-year-old woman on July 28. She had visited Gundgurthi Primary Health Care (PHC) with complaint of cough and fever just the day before. The second casualty...
12:46 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad metropolitan court on Monday rejected a petition by Teesta Setalvad and Amrish Patel to inspect the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots. While dismissing Setalvad and Patel's petition, the court allowed Zakia Jafri's lawyer to inspect the 25,000-page long SIT report for five days from Tuesday. The SIT has also been directed to file an affidavit whether it...
04:59 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Three days after Zakia Jaffri was given a copy of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Amicus Curiae reports in the 2002 riots, she filed a fresh application on Thursday. In her application, Zakia listed those documents that had not been handed over to her. She has asked for the preliminary SIT report filed by A K Malhotra dated May 5, 2012. The next hearing in...
05:44 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. Read the full text of the final report: SUBMITTED BY: RAJU RAMACHANDRAN, SENIOR ADVOCATE (AMICUS CURIAE) I.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: 1.This Hon'ble Court vide order dated 27.04.2009 directed the Special Investigation Team [hereinafter 'SIT'] to "look into" the complaint submitted by the Petitioner No. 1 on...
02:34 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran's report on the 2002 Gujarat riots found that the role Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi needs to be investigated. According to Ramachandran the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) found that the conduct of certain police officials and public prosecutors were deficient while dealing with riots while commenting that offences can be made against Modi under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)....
02:31 PM, May 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT found no prosecutable evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The report is 25,000-pages long. The court has asked Jafri to file an application if she feels there are discrepencies in the report or that documents are incomplete, on...
01:49 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over the final copy of the SIT report on the Gulbarg massacre to Zakia Jafri, a month after the Supreme Court-appointed SIT gave Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the case. The report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no evidence against Narendra Modi. Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan...
12:13 PM, May 07, 2012
