tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9276993460089372992012-02-27T19:19:39.210+05:30A platform to show people how Gujarat has been denied justice and people like Narendra Modi are still at ease, after funding a state wide communal massacre in 2002 after infamous incident of Sabarmati train Burning in Godhra.Rahul Tejwaninoreply@blogger.comBlogger2541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927699346008937299.post-68169352204647015352012-02-27T19:12:00.000+05:302012-02-27T19:19:39.310+05:30

Sabrang Trust/ Citizens for Justice and Peace Statement of Justice Hosbet Suresh   Gulberg Memorial 2002-2012   In Ahmedabad on February 27, 2012   How does one live with the recurring memories of a gruesome past? Of the hideous acts of mass murder, rape and destruction of properties and livelihood? We have recorded all such stories, as each one, the victims, and all kith and kin of the

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Survivors SpeakShare their ExperiencesA Wailing WallLive Banner InstallationsLife in a Transit CampLIVE WEBCAM LINK FROM THE GULBERG MEMORIAL ON FEBRUARY 27, 2012 FROM 11 A.M. ONWARDSLink up and share the experience onwww.live1978.com, www.sabrang.com, www.cjponline.org from 11 a.m. onwards on Monday February 27 2012In Memorium Music Shubha Mudgal, Aneesh Prashan, Sudhir Nayak 7 p.m. at the

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  Change of Date Due to All Trade Union Bandh on February 28, 2012 MEMORIAL PREPONED TO FEBRUARY 27, 2012   Gulberg Society, Ahmedabad February 27, 2012 2 p.m. onwards   How do we commemorate such a cataclysmic series of violences, lives torn asunder, narratives of depth and despair, callousness and courage, struggle and hope?  Together we hope. As we near the Ten year mark of the

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Prashant Dayal | TNNAhmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), appointed by Supreme Court to probe the post-Godhra riots of Gujarat, has sought legal opinion on whether to prosecute five persons, including chief minister Narendra Modi, given the evidence they have. The officials have written to SIT’s legal adviser in this connection.Besides Modi, the list includes former director general of

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Prosecute more cops: WitnessesTIMES NEWS NETWORKAhmedabad: While the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) has been successfully dodging the issue of implicating cops in riots cases by claiming that further probe is underway, the witnesses have also decided not to give up their legal battle.Within a month’s time the special court hearing the Naroda Patia case disposed off an

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Express news service : RajkotRebel BJP MLA from Mahuva Dr Kanu Kalsaria, who successfully spearheaded an agitation of farmers against the Nirma group’s proposed cement plant at Mahuva in Bhavnagar, was seriously injured along with three others when the car they were travelling in ran into a tree near Vallbhipur in Bhavnagar district early Tuesday morning.Dr Kalsaria and his injured aides were

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DNA Correspondent On Tuesday, a dalit youth, Atul Rathod, 25, was allegedly murdered by a group of darbars in Rethal village, 22 km from Sanand of Ahmedabad district. According to police, the youngsters from the darbar community attacked four dalits with sticks and sharp weapons. All the four were admitted to Sahyog Hospital in Sarkhej, where doctors declared Atul dead. The others are

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Victims of social boycott and forced migration narrate their plight at a public hearing in GandhinagarParas K Jhal "When I faced social boycott in my village for entering a temple, none of the educated people and government officers who belong to my caste came in my support. On the contrary they asked me why I wanted to go to the temple. Today I live in Sanand, 22 km away from native village, as

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DNA Correspondent | AhmedabadSalim Zarda, a man sentenced to death in the Sabarmati Express train carnage case, has alleged before the Gujarat high court that he was not given a 'fair trial' by the designated special court. Zarda has stated in his petition that a crucial piece of evidence was not considered during the trial of the case.On Monday, the bench of justices Jayant Patel and Paresh

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GPCC chief says state govt indulged in scam amounting to Rs 9,100 cr to benefit corporate houseAhmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@indiatimes.com Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee President Arjun Modhwadia has demanded prosecution of Chief Minister Narendra Modi under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act for extending undue favour to a corporate house. Referring to the Supreme Court

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Express news service : AhmedabadThe Gujarat High Court on Monday rapped the Gujarat government over its failure in providing proper infrastructure to the CBI, which is probing the 2003 Sadiq Jamal Mehtar encounter case.The court asked the state government why it had failed in providing proper infrastructure to the investigating agency in the last six months. “You have not done anything except for

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IMES NEWS NETWORKAhmedabad: The special court hearing the case of post-Godhra massacre at Naroda Patia has decided to visit the scene of offence on January 30.Designated judge, Jyotsnaben Yagnik took up the decision suo motu on Monday to visit the spot, where 95 persons were killed in the aftermath of Godhra carnage on February 28, 2002.Along with the presiding officer, those to visit the place

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HC reserves order on Godhra convict’s petitionAhmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday reserved its order over an application by convict in Godhra carnage case demanding that additional evidence in form of the sting operation record should be allowed to be brought on record during the hearing of appeal.Salim alias Salman Zarda, who has been awarded death sentence along with 10 others in the

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Ujjain Jail Records Dispute Claim That Dead Gangster Is KillerSaeed Khan | TNNAhmedabad:Exactly who killed former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya? Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt claims he has a letter from Asgar Ali, now acquitted of the assassination charge by the Gujarat high court, which states the killing was executed by Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s fellow gangster Tulsiram Prajapati.However,

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The Narendra Modi camp is not taking seriously the BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s endorsement of the chief minister as the next BJP chief and the prime minister. They smell something fishy in his remarks to a leading television channel. Far from wanting to be ‘an ordinary party worker’, Gadkari has announced his intentions to contest the Lok Sabha election from Nagpur, the ground zero of Sangh

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Guj Has Weakest Lokayukta ActAjay Umat | TNNAhmedabad: Gujarat Lokayukta Act does not provide for any strong action against corruption, unlike BJPruled Karnatakawhere former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa had to resign and face charges of corruption. In fact, Gujarat has the weakest law in the country and legal experts call it virtually toothless.Under section 7 of this Act, the lokayukta can

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Express news service : Ahmedabad The Gujarat High Court on Monday reserved its order on a petition by a convict in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case demanding to bring on record evidence related to a sting operation in which a key prosecution witness is purportedly seen stating he was bribed by the then investigation officer Noel Parmar to give a tutored statement.J R Mothaliya, the

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KapilDave : GandhinagarThe Gujarat government is likely to close down the nearly defunct State Law Commission, which it says has not contributed anything significant for years. One short extension was given to the commission till June 30, 2012, a few days ago.The commission, which was formed in December 1998 to review existing laws and suggest new ones for better governance, has failed to give

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Coomi Kapoor :Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wants to imitate Mayawati in her penchant for constructing grandiose theme parks. However, instead of Mayawati-style parks filled with elephants and Dalit icons, Modi plans to set up a Mahatma Mandir park in Gandhinagar. Initially, the idea was to have 365 statues of the Mahatma, but it was scaled down to 52 statues representing each week of the

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PRAMOD KUMARThe CBI inquiry into the Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case has revealed that suspended Gujarat IPS officer D.G.Vanzara, who was transferred from the ATS to the Kutch border range on December 13, 2006, allegedly spoke to Vipul Agarawal, then Banaskantha SP, a few hours before the Tulsiram encounter on December 28.CBI sources said their probe has revealed that Vanzara allegedly arranged

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Gujarat EDNPalanpur:Chief minister Narendra Modi has announced a package of Rs 2380crore for Sabarkantha district at his 24th Sadbhavana mission fast held atHimmatnagar on Sunday.The amount would be spent in the next one year towards setting up amedical college, building a bypass from Idar to Himmatnagar, developing thetemple town of Shamalaji and the Buddhist centre Dev-Ni-Mori in

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Gujarat EDNParimal DabhiThe Supreme Court-appointed SIT has relied on the CD of a sting operation — carried out by a private media house on certain 2002 riots accused — in Gulberg Society and Naroda Patiya massacre cases, even as the Investigation Officer of the same SIT in the Godhra carnage case had reportedly found the CD “inaudible”. In the sting operation, a prime prosecution witness in the

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Gujarat EDNLaunching a scathing attack on Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the state Congress today called his Sadbhavana Mission a “drama” and accused him of spending public money on self-promotional events at the cost of OBCs’ welfare. “Sadbhavana Mission is a drama. The Chief Minister is just indulging in self-promotional activities in the name of fasts and wasting public money. He is making

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Roxy Gagdekar & Jumana Shah l Ahmedabad On Thursday morning, seven-year-old Raju didn't bother to bath or change his torn clothes for almost a week in a row, was without meal for almost 36 hours and didn't know the meaning of the word 'home'.These days, he lives in a filth provided by the state establishment called Ganeshnagar in Piplaj village, less than 15 minutes drive from the sprawling

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Muslims Stay Away From Otherwise Successful Show Sachin Sharma | TNN Godhra: Narendra Modi’s most publicized Muslim acquaintance in this town missed his date with the chief minister. Modi’s former laundryman Chand Abdulsalam Dhobi said he was occupied with pressing engagements and received the VIP invitation for the Sadbhavana fast rather late. Even as the BJP exerted itself to ensure

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Despite BJP’sefforts, the turnout of Muslims at Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana Fast is lowModi announces Rs1,490 crore development package for Panchmahals district Roxy Gagdekar l Godhra Chief minister Narendra Modi’s 24th Sadbhavana Mission fast that was held in Godhra on Friday seems to have failed in its bid to win over the local Muslim population. The turnout of local Muslims at the fast venue

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DNACorrespondent Human rights activist Shabnam Hashmi and eight volunteers were detained by police when they were trying to enter Godhra where chief minister Narendra Modi sat on Sadbhavana fast on Friday. Hashmi is founder trustee of Anhad, an NGO fighting for justice to the riot victims of 2002.Hashmi and her team members were detained on Friday morning and released in the evening. However,

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Express news service : Godhra Women dressed in green synthetic sarees, their heads covered, streamed into the SRP grounds filing past Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who waved to them with his left hand as he shook his right hand with other visitors on the dais. Another bunch of women with steel pots on their heads followed, waving at Modi, who returned their waves. There were 25,000-odd such

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DNA Correspondent | Gandhinagar Japan's Toto, a leading manufacturer of sanitary-ware products and bath fittings, has finalised plans to set up its first manufacturing plant in India at Halol, said officials on Friday.Officials said that Toto will invest Rs380 crore (US $ 76 million) for the plant, which will have the capacity to produce 5 lakh units per annum in the first phase. Commercial

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In an extraordinary judgment that must count among the sharpest indictments ever handed out to any State government, the Gujarat High Court has upheld Governor Kamla Beniwal's appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as the Lokayukta over objections by Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers. The single judge bench of Justice V.M. Sahai ruled that, although the Governor was otherwise required to act

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Stark neglect of Muslim ghettos belies chief minister Narendra Modi's claims of development for all in Godhra Jumana Shah l Godhra Those living in Godhra's Signal Falia have many tales of woes to tell. They live amid open gutters, which too they claim have been made with their own money, not the nagarpalika's. The area gets inundated during the monsoon, leading to serious health concerns.The

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DNA Correspondent l Gandhinagar The Gujarat high court’s direction to the state government to pay fixed-wage employees wages as per the sixth pay commission’s recommendations is expected to put an additional burden of around Rs200 crore per month on the state exchequer.There are currently an estimated 1.50 lakh employees drawing fixed wages, most of whom were appointed as police lok rakshak,

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I H Syed Named Prosecutor For Encounter Cases TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: The lawyer who represents suspended IPS Sanjiv Bhatt and another top cop Kuldip Sharma and Ishrat Jahan’s mother, I H Syed has been hired by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as its special prosecutor in Gujarat’s cases, including the fake encounter cases it has been probing. The notification issued by CBI

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Govt’s fixed-wage scheme a violation of fundamental rights, says Gujarat HC Nikunj Soni l Ahmedabad The year 2012 promises to be one of huge financial benefit to government employees who were appointed to different jobs on fixed monthly wages. In a landmark judgement on Friday, the Gujarat high court ruled that the scheme of fixed wages adopted by the state government for government jobs was a

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Rajkot: A tiff between BJP and Congress workers over banners for chief minister Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana fast turned ugly on Friday after former mayor Uday Kangad allegedly slapped city Congress president Jaswantsinh Bhatti. The incident occurred when Bhatti and other local Congress leaders reached Race Course Ring Road and started removing the banners, which the

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l Poor families shifted to Ganeshnagar due to development work at riverfront l They have been forced to live without potable water, drainage lines Roxy Gagdekar & Jumana Shah l Ahmedabad On Thursday morning, seven-year-old Raju didn't bother to bath or change his torn clothes for almost a week in a row, was without meal for almost 36 hours and didn't know the meaning of the word 'home'.These

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Alleging that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was “dramatis personae of the Gujarat carnage of 2002”, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Friday again sought access to certain records of post-Godhra riot period.In a letter to the Nanavati commission which is probing the riots, Bhatt has sought directions to the DGP, ADGP state intelligence bureau and the chairman of Special Investigation Team (SIT

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Gujarat EDN DNA 24DEC2011SC, ST & OBC Cell delegation of Gujarat Congress met Governor Dr Kamla on Friday DNA Correspondent | Gandhinagar The Opposition has demanded cancellation of the village panchayats elections, slated for December 29. The demand comes in the wake of the High Court order directing the state government to comply with compulsory reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled

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Gujarat EDN DNA 24DEC2011Cong-BJP rivalry turns violent; former BJP mayor arrested after scuffle Bhavesh Shah | Rajkot The peace of Rajkot city is under threat. Tension is mounting due to the rivalry between Congress and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) which took a violent turn just two days ahead of the Sadbhavana Mission of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.Uday Kangad, former mayor and a BJP leader

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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Gujarat government on alleged branding of children with hot metals in Kutch and Rajkot districts. The notice came after NHRC took suo motu cognisance of a media report alleging that children in Vagad region of Kutch district and some remote parts of Rajkot district in Gujarat were branded with iron rods, heated nails, wires and

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: Hearing over the dispute on appointment of lokayukta in the state began before a third judge in the Gujarat High Court on Monday. Justice V M Sahai was referred the case after a split verdict by a division bench of Justices Akil Qureshi and Sonia Gokani. The court began with arguments by the state government which has challenged governor Dr Kamla’s decision of

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court (HC) on Monday rejected the petition filed by the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) demanding cancellation of bail of main accused in the post-Godhra riots in Naroda Gam, Babu Bajrangi. This was the only application filed by SIT seeking bail cancellation of any of the riots accused after the SC granted permission to

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Express News Service Rajkot: The police have registered a complaint against unknown persons after posters showing CM Narendra Modi donning a green kurta and skull cap and moving towards “PM’s chair” sprung up near the official residence of city Mayor on Race Course Ring Road, which was also the venue for Sadbavana Mission on Monday. Pradhyumannagar police inspector V B Jadeja, who has become

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DNA Correspondent | Ahmedabad Gordhan Zadaphia, who was junior home minister during the 2002 riots, appeared before the Nanavati-Mehta commission on Tuesday. Earlier, he had appeared before the panel in November 2010.After his in-camera questioning by the panel on Tuesday, he told mediapersons: “I have not come here to protect or ensnare anyone.” He said this when asked about his stand on chief

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Zadaphia Claims He Wasn’t Present In City During Riots As Alleged TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad:Former state home minister Gordhan Zadaphia has claimed that the 2002 riots call details furnished by top cop Rahul Sharma are not correct. He told this to the Nanavati-Mehta commission during his incamera deposition earlier this week. Zadaphia, who is facing accusation that he was present in

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Ahmedabad, Dec 28 (PTI) Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and his one-time senior R B Sreekumar, both part of the anti-Narendra Modi camp, were on Wednesday locked in a war of words over the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. Sreekumar, a former DGP, has alleged that Bhatt maintained silence over the post-Godhra riots due to "ulterior motive" and "for avoiding clash of interests with

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Infant mortality rate falls from 48 per 1,000 live births in 2009 to 44 in 2010 l Grim Figures DNA Correspondent | Gandhinagar With improved healthcare services, Gujarat has managed to reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), but it continues to lag behind a number of other states, official data shows.State health minister Jaynarayan Vyas said that the Infant Mortality Rate in Gujarat fell from 48

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The inside story of war of words between R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt Zahid.Qureshi @timesgroup.com On one hand is the simple, down to earth, three-time President’s Award winner, retired IPS officer R B Sreekumar. He is the first police officer, who openly came out against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his “wrong doings” during Gujarat riots. He is widely known for his principles

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Group Wants To Renegotiate Power Purchase Agreement With Gujarat For Its Mundra UMPP TIMES NEWS NETWORK Gandhinagar: Tata Group’s outgoing chairman Ratan Tata introduced his successor Cyrus Mistry to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar on Thursday. It is also learnt that there was discussion on renegotiating the power purchase agreement (PPA) with the state government for its

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He also denied any role in bringing back bodies of Godhra victims to Sola Civil Hospital Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@indiatimes.com Former Gujarat minister of state for home Gordhan Zadaphia has told the Nanavati Commission that he was not aware of riots in Naroda area and Gulbarg society when the communal violence unfolded there during 2002 riots. In his in-camera deposition

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The Gujarat High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on a petition by a convict sentenced to death in the Godhra train carnage, demanding that additional evidence in the form of CDs of a TV sting operation be brought on record. The notice was issued by a Division Bench of Justices D.H. Waghela and N.V. Anjaria, which is also hearing the appeals of all those

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Swati Bhan, Ahmedabad, Dec 29, DHNS: Looking back: Gujarat For Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the year gone by has mixed memories. Though the most popular BJP Chief Minister had brought the year to a close with the masterful plan to shed his image as a hardline leader, the ghosts of Godhra riots haunted him through the tortuous months of 2011. Modi’s troubles began in February when one

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DNA Correspondent AhmedabadCitizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an NGO fighting for justice to the victims of the communal riots of 2002, has welcomed the decision of Sessions court, Mehsana, directing the district and sessions court, Mehsana, to register a case against Rais Khan Pathan. The Mehsana Sessions court has directed the district and sessions court to register the complaint again

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Ahmedabad: The Mehsana sessions court has asked its registrar to lodge a complaint against Rais Khan Pathan, the former aide of social activist Teesta Setalvad, for furnishing false information in the court. 
 Pathan had sought to become a witness in the Sardarpura case to testify against Setalvad on how she had prepared false affidavits on behalf of the witnesses in the Supreme Court.

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Express news serviceAhmedabad: Mehsana session judge S C Srivastava has ordered to book a criminal complaint against Rais Khan Pathan, a former aide of Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad, on charges of “misdirecting the court and creating hurdle in the smooth proceedings of the Sardarpura mass massacre case with an intention to secure his malafide intentions”. The order was issued by the

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Express news service Ahmedabad: Delhi-based IPS officer R R Verma and chief of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which probed the Ishrat Jahan encounter, today lodged a complaint in the CBI (Central Bureau of investigation) headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday, declaring the encounter to be fake and suggesting that the roles of all the police officers involved in it be probed. The

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1,500 cr devpt plans for Vadodara announced TIMES NEWS NETWORK Vadodara: Chief minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that plans of development works worth Rs 1,500 crores had been made for the city. While he did not elaborate on the projects, he said that these would include city gas, Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) and networking roads. Modi promised to make the city ‘Vibrant

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Ajay Umat & Harit Mehta | TNN Ahmedabad: The initial investigation done by Gujarat police in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case has come under cloud. The fresh FIR filed by Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says there are serious lapses and omissions in the earlier probe. The then investigating officer (IO) did not obtain call data record of

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Express news service Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt today sought his joint examination with Chief Minister Narendra Modi and former DGP R B Sreekumar before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in connection with the alleged undermining of judicial proceedings related to 2002 riots. A day after The Indian Express reported that the Commission has brought the

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CBI finally quizzes marble tradersProbe Into Sohrab, Tulsi Cases Back On Fast TrackPrashant Dayal | TNN Ahmedabad: CBI officials probing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases have got hold of three crucial witnesses from Rajasthan. After being pulled up recently by the Supreme Court for the lack of initiative by the CBI in probing both these cases, the probe is now

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DNA Correspondent l Ahmedabad After the cases of Jamjodhpur custodial death and controversy over FIR by constable KD Panth, another case has come to haunt suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. On Wednesday, Gujarat High Court reserved order on Bhatt’s petition to quash proceedings in a custodial torture case registered against him in Porbandar in 1998.As per the case, the Porbandar police had

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DNA Correspondent l Ahmedabad RR Verma, chairman of Gujarat high court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, is likely to file a fresh FIR on Thursday. Sources said the FIR is likely to make some disclosures that will send shock waves through the state's government and bureaucracy.The FIR is expected to contain a gist of the final report

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State government to form a task force which will carry out a fire safety audit at all hospitals across the stateAhmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@indiatimes.com In the wake of the fire at AMRI hospital in Kolkata, the state government has decided to constitute a task force which will conduct a fire safety check at all hospitals across Gujarat. The task force will be formed in a week, the

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ISI agents were assigned task to collect information that could be used to assassinate Narendra Modi NEW DELHI A Pakistani woman spy and her companion nabbed from Delhi on Monday were no small operatives. They were pushed into India from ISI’s launch pads in Nepal to attack Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other terror targets in the state. Both jihadis, Karachi-based Soofia Kanwal and her

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Gujarat EDN AM 15DEC2011HC reserves order on Bhatt’s quashing pleaThe IPS officers has filed the petition in the alleged police atrocity case of 1990Gujarat High Court on Wednesday reserved the order in a quashing petition filed by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in connection with alleged police atrocity case leading to the death of a person in 1990. As many as 133 people, including Prabhu

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Her visage has the distinctive Siddi features and colour. She sobs as she speaks to us. “I was away on work. Cleaning houses. They came without an order. And they crushed everything in my home. It may have been a hut to them but it was my home. Now where do I go? To their office? They spit at me there.” I am standing where I had stood a few months ago amidst the modest and mosquito infected

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WHILE Narendra Modi discovered ‘ Sadbhavana’ in 2011, it was Dr Kanu Kalsaria, who had set up Sadbhavana Trust Hospital in January 1985 in Mahuva. Operational since August 1985, this hospital linked the lean 57- year- old surgeon to the rural masses of Mahuva. His work among the people propelled him to electoral politics and since 1998, Kalsaria has been the undefeated BJP candidate from Mahuva.

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FIVE years of incarceration and a post graduation diploma in value education and spirituality seem to have truly bolstered the conviction of the alleged killer cop of Gujarat — D. G. Vanzara. In the process, he has developed a new definition of manhood. The trigger happy cop — who landed behind bars for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and is now a suspect in the

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OPPOSING political currents are meeting, and their interaction is steadily raising the temperature along coastal Gujarat. As the two principal political forces in Gujarat clashed in Bhavnagar, about 80 kilometers away from the famous ship breaking yard of Alang during Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana fast last Saturday, the chief minister was challenged by a third force. Quietly in the same town, the

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OPPOSING political currents are meeting, and their interaction is steadily raising the temperature along coastal Gujarat. As the two principal political forces in Gujarat clashed in Bhavnagar, about 80 kilometers away from the famous ship breaking yard of Alang during Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana fast last Saturday, the chief minister was challenged by a third force. Quietly in the same town, the

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Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt shot off a letter to special investigation team (SIT) chief R K Raghavan on Saturday urging him to record his testimony before a magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC since he feared “distortion” of his earlier recorded statements on the riots. Bhatt was reacting to an Indian Express report dated December 9, 2011 “Pandya Murder: Call records

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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has kept the hearing of a petition demanding summons to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and four others by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission for December 16. The petition has been moved by Amrish Patel from Jan Sangharsh Manch, an organisation which is fighting the legal battle on behalf of the riots victims. According to the petitioner’s lawyer Mukul Sinha,

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Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has claimed that Rs 10 lakh, allegedly drawn from the State Secret Service Fund (SSF) to undermine the proceedings of a 2002 riots related petition before the Supreme Court, were handed over by Chief Minister Narendra Modi to former minister Amit Shah for further disbursal as per plans, in his presence. Bhatt said this in a letter to the

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Jaipur: A single judge bench of the Rajasthan high court on Wednesday issued show-cause notice to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi asking why he should not be booked for criminal defamation of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The HC asked Modi to appear in court in person on February 6, 2012. Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma issued notice on a petition filed by Charmesh Sharma, a

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New Delhi: The Sohrabuddin encounter case threw up a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat government producing in SC a 15-page list signed by a CBI SP acknowledging receipt of documents, including some call record CDs, after the probe was transferred from state police. On Thursday, the court had rapped the Narendra Modi government for not handing over crucial mobile phone call records of

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Ahmedabad: A special court hearing the 2002 Naroda Patia riot case on Wednesday directed the special investigation team to further probe the role of four senior police officers in the “larger interest of justice”, based on the phone records provided by the victims. Some of the victims in the case, in which 95 people were killed on February 28, 2002, during the post-Godhra riots, had last week

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Gujarat EDN AM 08DEC2011Riot victims had sought the inclusion of the then Naroda Inspector K K Mysorewala, DCP P B Gondia, JCP M K Tandon and police commissioner P C Pande as accused in caseA Special Court on Wednesday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to further probe the role of four senior police officers including former Police Commissioner P C Pande during the 2002 post-Godhra

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Rajkot: With the district administration reportedly rejecting its applications for open grounds in Rajkot, the Congress has decided to hold its day-long Satkarma fast — to counter Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana Mission fast — at a small ground in busy and congested Karanpara on December 17. Rajkot Congress MP Kunvarji Bavalia, who will lead the Satkarma fast, said, “(The fact) that

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Rajiv Topno, currently with the Prime Minister’s Office, also gets the chargesheet in a decade old case; they had unearthed mining scam involving former BJP minister Babu BokhiriaIt is not just the IPS officers, daring to challenge the regime, who get chargesheeted in Gujarat. In a surprise move, two senior IAS officers of Gujarat have found themselves in the “bad books” of the Modi government. H

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Locked in a bitter feud with the Governor over several issues, particularly the appointment of a new Lokayukta without consulting it, the state government is set to strike back with a plan to strip the Raj Bhawan of powers to appoint vice-chancellors of the state-run universities. Governor Kamla Beniwal, who is the ex-officio chancellor of over a dozen state-run universities, had ignored the

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Alleging complicity of high-level state functionaries, applicants requested that former DGP P C Pande and other officers be named as accused The special court trying the 2002 Naroda-Patiya riot case on Friday issued notice to the Special Investigation Team on an application seeking further probe and inclusion of four policemen, including former DGP P C Pande, as accused. Special Judge Jyotsna

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Special court judge Jyotsana Yagnik has issued notice to special investigation team (SIT) on an application seeking further investigation and inclusion of four cops, including former DGP PC Pande as accused in the Naroda Patiya case. The plea was filed by the victims of Naroda Patiya through their advocates Yousuf Sheikh and Raju Sheikh. The judge also asked the SIT to file its reply by

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The special trial court for the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case on Friday issued a notice to the special investigation team (SIT) on an application seeking further probe and inclusion of four policemen, including former DGP P C Pande, as accused. Special Judge Jyotsna Yagnik asked the SIT to file reply by December 7. The application has been filed by the riot victims, represented by by advocates

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With the Sardarpura verdict out last week sentencing 31 people to life imprisonment, hope and expectation has been rekindled amongst hundreds of riot victims, who lost their near and dear ones in some of the worst massacres in Gujarat.Sardarpura was one of the nine riot cases which were reinvestigated by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). The remaining are still at

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Gujarat EDNDNA 21 NOV 2011I know I am a person who is easily moved. Perhaps this is why I could not keep my eyes from filling up with tears when I saw the photos of the kin of people killed in the Sardarpura massacre of 2002, as also of the relatives of convicts jailed for life in the case. I do not overlook the important difference between the two groups - relatives of innocent victims against

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TIMES NEWS NETWORKAhmedabad: Former state urban development minister and senior BJP leader, I K Jadeja, has claimed that he took instructions from his junior minister and stayed in the DGP office for better co-ordination in order to quell the riots on February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra carnage.In his deposition before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission, which took place in-camera on November 8,

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Hemangi Balse in MumbaiReliance Industries' gas discovery in the Krishna-Godavari basin is expected to change the energy supply economics in the country with the reserves estimated to be around 40 times bigger than that of the Bombay High field, and double the total gas production of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.The Ambanis made the announcement on the gas discovery at the company’s annual

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AHMEDABAD: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt today said his stand on the credibility of probe done by the special investigation team into the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 riots has been vindicated by the reported findings of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran.Bhatt had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in April this year raising serious apprehensions about the probe

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Last updated on: October 25, 2011 00:20 IST Suspended Indian Police Services officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Monday said his stand on the credibility of probe done by the special investigation team into the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 riots has been vindicated by the reported findings of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran. Bhatt had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in April

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Gujarat EDN IE 25OCT2011 Press Trust of India Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Monday said his stand on the credibility of probe done by the Special Investigation Team into the role of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 riots has been vindicated by the reported findings of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran. Bhatt had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in April

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TOI Mumbai 25OCT2011 BJP seems in too much of a hurry to arrive at centrestage The BJP may have prematurely rejoiced sometime ago when it erroneously claimed that the Supreme Court had effectively 'exonerated' Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the case related to Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri's killing. Thus buoyed, Modi appeared to plan a leadership pitch in national politics. But

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Ahmedabad: The information that Pravin Togadia will be speaking on the last day of the three-day conference organized by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) at Pirana village seems to have spurred the police into action. Togadia, known for his allegedly 'inflammatory speeches', will be speaking on November 7 which coincidentally also happens to be Bakrid day this year. The Ahmedabad district police

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Dargah representatives request shifting of venue as conference coincides with Bakri EidVHP has planned to hold a conference on November 5, 6 and 7. Around 2,500 members are expected to take part in the eventApprehending threats during the upcoming conference being organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad at Pirana, the members of local the Imam Shah Baba Roja Sanstha trust, has made a request to

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Pirana, a sleepy village 25 km from Ahmedabad city, is worried that Bakr-Id on November 7 this year may not pass off peacefully. The village has an almost equal number of Hindus and Muslims, which seems but natural as the 600-year-old dargah (shrine) of Sufi saint Imam Shah Baba is located here. The saint had devotees from both the communities and his dargah is still visited by Hindus as well as

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"Things won't subside. As long as there are two brave lawyers and three shrill but fearless NGO activists, truth will out, as the Sardarpura case indicates. When that happens, the time for apologies will be long past and the planners of the massacre will have no place left to go, perhaps not even China. "A LOAD-SHEDDING OF JUSTICE

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PLEASE GIVE EXTENSIVE COVERAGE TO THIS AND ASSIST OUR APPEAL FOR PEACE AND THE RIGHTS OF MUSL;IMS FOR POST NAMAAZ WORSHIPNovember 6 2011URGENT APPEAL AND UPDATE ON VHP S SAMMELAN AT PIRANA DARGAH, OVER 2,000 VHP MEN GATHER ON SUNDAYCONCERNS ABOUT POST NAMAAZ WORSHIP AT DARGAHTO,Shri CHITTARANJAN SINGHDIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE,GUJARATDear Sir,This is an update on the developing situation at

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`Enough proof to act against Gujarat top cops' HT 25OCT2011NEW DELHI: 2002 RIOTS SC amicus curiae recommends filing criminal cases against officers For the first time since the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, a confidential report by a Supreme Court appointed lawyer has recommended registration of criminal cases against senior police officers posted in the state then. In his report,

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It has taken nine and a half long years for judicial acknowledgement of the depth of abdication of Constitutional Responsibility by an elected chief minister in Gujarat in 2002. This abdication has elements of criminal vicarious responsibility. In 2002, in the wake of state wide genocidal pogrom, two Retired Judges of the Supreme Court of India and one retired Judge of the Bombay High Court (

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TOI 22OCT2011Amicus Report Now Being Studied By SIT Prashant Dayal TNN Ahmedabad: The amicus curiae of Supreme Court, Raju Ramachandran, has recommended that a chargesheet be filed against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi under sections I53, 153A and 153B of IPC for his "inflammatory speeches" during the rioting in Gujarat in 2002. Those convicted under these sections of IPC face a jail

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