Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad court will pass its order on the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots on February 15. The SIT on Monday opposed giving its report on the massacre to Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace and senior lawyer Mukul Sinha, saying that they had "no locus in the case". The SIT opposed not only the duo in the...
03:11 PM, Feb 13, 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
Social activist Teesta Setalvad claimed on Monday that she was receiving death threats ever since the SIT report on the 2002 riots was submitted to the Gujarat court. ...
12:43 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court will on Monday hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team in the Gulbarg society massacre in the 2002 riots. It will also hear the petitions of social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed in a sealed envelope last week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the SIT has reportedly given a clean chit to Gujarat...
07:32 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court is all set to hear the appeals filed by Yasmeen Shaikh and 9 others convicted in the 2002 Best Bakery case on Tuesday. Shaikh filed the appeal saying she was 'lured and misguided' into giving false testimony against the 17 accused by social activist Teesta Setalvad. Of the 17 accused, nine have been convicted and are serving life sentence. The court might rule either...
09:19 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Speaking on Sanjeev Bhatt's bail, Teesta Setalvad said that the independence of the lower judiciary in this case has been reaffirmed. ...
11:59 AM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: In what is being seen as a breather to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass any order on his alleged inaction to contain the 2002 Gujarat riots and referred the matter back to the trial court in Ahmedabad for a decision. The Supreme Court also observed that it will no longer monitor the probe now while hearing a petition filed by...
06:34 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Teesta Setalvad said the the Supreme Court has accepted the investigations done so far and sent the case to the trial court. ...
11:07 AM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against social activist Teesta Setalvad for her alleged role in a case of exhuming the bodies of post-Godhra riot victims in 2006 at Pandarwada in Gujarat. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha also issued notice to the Gujarat government seeking its response to Setalvad's plea for quashing the criminal proceedings against her. She had approached the apex...
01:47 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Mumbai: Shaikh Yasmeen Bano, a key prosecution witness in the 2002 Best Bakery case, has moved the Bombay High Court alleging that she was "lured and misguided" by a social activist into giving false testimony against 17 accused persons, of which nine were sentenced to life imprisonment. Yasmeen filed the petition earlier this week, after no action was taken on her letter dated June 17, 2010 addressed to the Chief...
01:55 PM, Apr 29, 2011
Teesta Setalvad, the Secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, welcomed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's affidavit on the 2002 Gujarat riots. Bhatt's affidavit filed before the Supreme Court has implicated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riot cases. ...
03:27 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Jalna, Maharashta: Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad has demanded that an FIR be lodged against Gujarat Chief Minister Narandra Modi and others in the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre case in which hundreds of people including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were killed by a rioting mob. Setlvad, who was here to deliver a lecture, told PTI that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has held that Modi had failed...
08:08 AM, Feb 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director RK Raghavan, is investigating the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riots. The apex court's special bench headed by Justice DK Jain said: "We don't...
04:56 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Says the decision was long overdue, welcome, but not enough. ...
06:50 PM, Mar 11, 2010
The SIT report was given only to the state and advocate Harish Salve. ...
11:54 AM, Apr 14, 2009
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