
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi remains optimistic as the court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhat in Ahmedabad is set to hear the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) closure report on the Gulbarg massacre during the 2002 riots. The court will also decide if activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha can get a copy of the SIT report. The Gujarat Chief Minister tweeted on Monday quoting Swami Vivekananda, "I stand for...

12:47 PM, Feb 13, 2012

Ahmedabad: A day after stinging comments by the Gujarat High Court on the 2002 riots, there was reprieve for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi almost a decade after the worst communal flare up in the state. The Supreme Court's Special Investigation Team filed its closure report in a sealed envelope before the trial court and sources say that it has not found enough evidence to prosecute the Gujarat Chief Minister....

06:59 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Ahmedabad: In a clean chit to former Gujarat DGP PC Pande, Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has told a court in Ahmedabad that there was no evidence of dereliction of duty by the IPS officer during the 2002 riots. SIT finding is that there is no evidence of dereliction of duty on the part of Pande. The submission was made on Thursday by the SIT in the court of...

04:25 PM, May 27, 2011

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has not taken IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's affidavit, implicating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, on record. However, sources say that Amicus Curae (friend of court) Raju Ramachandran will call upon Bhatt to examine him. Bhatt, a 47-year-old police officer, who is currently heading the State Reserve Police Training Centre at Junagadh, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court...

05:27 PM, May 05, 2011

SIT chief R K Raghavan has conducted meeting with the staff at its office in Gandhinagar to finalise the report. ...

07:40 AM, Apr 27, 2010

Special Investigation Team is probing the Gujarat riots of 2002. ...

11:21 PM, Mar 22, 2010

Says the decision was long overdue, welcome, but not enough. ...

06:50 PM, Mar 11, 2010

The case will now be referred to another court. ...

12:10 AM, Jul 07, 2009