Two women have dared to take on the 'Iron Man' of Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The two women, Shweta Bhatt - wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt - and Jagruti Pandya - former state Home Minister Haren Pandya's widow - have been leading a personalised campaign against him. ...
07:49 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel's party has given a poll ticket to Jagriti Pandya, the wife of slain BJP leader Haren Pandya. She will contesting for Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party from the Ellis Bridge constituency in Ahmedabad. ...
09:57 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected application by Jagriti Pandya seeking reinvestigation into Haren Pandya murder case. Jagriti Pandya is widow of former Gujarat Home Minsiter Haren Pandya. Pandya was gunned down in 2003. The Gujarat High Court on January 19 directed the CBI and the state government to file replies to a petition seeking re-investigations of murder of Haren Pandya. The court had said that petition filed...
01:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has admitted the appeals filed by the CBI and Gujarat government challenging the acquittal by the High Court of 12 convicts in the murder of former Home Minister Haren Pandya. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and J Chalameshwar admitted the appeal filed by the investigating agency and the state police questioning the August 29, 2010, acquittal by the High Court as being erroneous. The...
11:18 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Ahmedabad: Jagruti Pandya, wife of slain former BJP minister Haren Pandya, has decided not to go to the venue of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's fast - to hand over a memorandum seeking justice for her husband - after speaking to senior party leader LK Advani over phone on Saturday. Advani assured Jagruti that he would support her efforts to get justice for her late husband. "Jagruti wanted to meet me...
04:40 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI will be giving a presentation to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on its proposal to file a Special Leave Petition in Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of 12 people in the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003. Sources in the agency said a presentation was to be made soon before the Home Minister during which it was expected that he may point...
05:43 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: It was a blow for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday when the Gujarat high court acquitted the 12 accused in the 2002 assassination of former Home Minister Haren Pandya. The acquittal comes at the end of a long and controversial trial and the CBI was even criticised for a poor investigation. It also observed that the trial in the special POTA court was a waste...
08:40 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: After receiving flak from Gujarat High Court for "botched up" and "blinkered" probe in the Haren Pandya murder case, the CBI on Monday decided to challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of senior officials, agency sources said. They said it was decided that a Special Leave Petition will be filed in the apex court after going through...
07:43 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Monday dropped murder charges against all 12 accused in the killing of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya. The court has said that there is no evidence to press murder charges against the accused. The court, however, said that they can be convicted for criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder. The court also slammed the CBI for its 'washed up' and 'blinkered' investigations in...
12:08 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Ex-home minister Haren Pandya was killed in 2003. ...
07:24 PM, Jul 15, 2009
Islamabad: Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday he would urge Shahid Afridi to reverse his retirement decision. "I will do whatever I can to resolve this issue, as I am equally a fan of Afridi," Malik tweeted. "I hope to give u (you) some good news in the future." Afridi criticized the top leadership of Pakistan Cricket Board earlier this week and quit international cricket in protest. However,...
08:04 PM, Jan 31, 2008
The astronaut will reach her ancestral hometown in Gujarat on Wednesday. ...
08:55 PM, Sep 18, 2007
Two were sentenced to seven years RI for murdering Pandya on March 26, 2003. ...
07:06 PM, Jun 25, 2007
