New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court is set to hear Zakia Jafri's new plea seeking access to the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre case on Tuesday. Zakia is the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri. The SIT may submit its reply on Tuesday. Zakia has accused 64 senior politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of committing crimes during the riots. Zakia has now asked the Supreme Court to order...
07:12 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: A magisterial court in Ahmedabad rejected Zakia Jafri's plea to open the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots in court. The court has said that the SIT will submit its final report on March 15 and Zakia Jafri can apply for a copy of the report after March 15. Zakia Jafri and Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace filed...
03:20 PM, Mar 03, 2012
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
