Muslims are seeking a new narrative in Gujarat beyond victimhood The land of historic Gandhian satyagrahas like Kheda, Bardoli and the Dandi March, Gujarat ...
08:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: The verdict in the 2002 post-riot Ode killings will be declared on Friday. Three persons including two women were killed at Ode village in Anand a decade ago. This is the third case of the 2002 riots at Ode village being probed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). Forty-one people are undergoing trial in the case. According to details of this case, during communal violence...
10:19 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has approached the President on the 2002 post-Godhra riots probe. In a letter to President Pratibha Patil, Bhatt has sought probe against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bhatt has sought that the Centre appoints a two-member commission to probe the role and conduct of Modi and his Cabinet, officials, police officers in the Godhra incident and the subsequent riots. He has also...
06:21 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Visnagar(Guj): A local court in Visnagar on Friday acquitted 109 persons who were accused of killing two people in Umta village of this taluka in Mahasana district during the post Godhra riots of 2002. Additional Sessions Judge KB Meghanani released all the accused giving them benefit of doubt in the case. The court said that the prosecution was not able to clearly establish the role of the accused. On February...
07:58 PM, Apr 27, 2012
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
New Delhi: The Special Investigative Team report into the post-Godhra riots has said that there's not enough evidence to prosecute Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The probe report has not given a clean chit to Narendra Modi but says the evidence is not enough to prosecute him. The SIT report says that Modi placed two cabinet ministers in the police control room during the riots. According to the report, one...
09:08 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: In what could be the biggest relief for the Gujarat chief Minister Narnedra Modi, sources have told CNN-IBN that the Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) is likely to give a clean chit to the beleaguered chief minister in the post-Godhra riot cases. Sources confirm that the SIT has found no direct evidence of Modi's role in willingly allowing post-Godhra riots. SIT had submitted its status report to...
02:36 PM, Dec 03, 2010
