Halol: The Halol sessions court has declared 39 accused innocent in the case of Kalol communal riots that occurred following the Godhra train carnage of 2002. The case had been ongoing in the Halol sessions court for 20 years, 4 months, and 13 days. According to the police complaint filed based on the statements of affected individuals in relief camps in Kalol in Panchmahal, 38 Muslims from Delol were travelling to Kalol in a tempo to escape an attack by locals from surrounding villages on Ma...Read More

New Delhi: Over 300 distinguished Indians that includes retired judges, retired bureaucrats and armed forces veterans wrote an open letter slamming the BBC's latest documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling it a 'Delusions of British Imperial Resurrection?' Eminent Indians signed the letter which lambasted the BBC series which the signatories say "is based on delusional and evidently lopsided reporting" that presumes to question the very basis of the 75-year-old edifice of India's e...Read More

New Delhi: A 3-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices S Ravindra Bhat and JB Pardiwala of the Supreme Court today disposed of ten pleas in the cases of 2002 Gujarat riots. The Apex Court noted that trials in eight out of nine cases are over and the cases are at the appellate stage in higher courts. The bench noted that Advocates of the petitioners had fairly accepted the statement of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court. The cases disposed...Read More

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Mumbai: Gujarat Police reached Mumbai today late in the afternoon to nab foreign funded NGO operator Teesta Setalvad according to reports. She was taken to local Santa Cruz police station and later arrested. She was being taken to Ahmedabad for questioning. According to Teesta's lawyer the arrest is in connection with an FIR filed against her and others on Saturday. Ahmedabad city Crime Branch has also booked former IPS RB Shreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt in the FIR. While Shreekumar has been ar...Read More

ગાંધીનગરઃ રાજ્યના મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી ભુપેન્દ્રભાઈ પટેલે જણાવ્યું છે કે, નામદાર સુપ્રિમ કોર્ટે આજે એક મહત્વનો ચૂકાદો આપીને સાચકો આંચ નહીં એ વાત પૂરવાર કરી છે. દેશના અને વિશ્વના લોકપ્રિય નેતા ...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in the state and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri. A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the magistrate’s order rejecting Zakia Jafri’s protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012. The bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Mahes...Read More

Ahmedabad: A special court here today awarded life sentence to another accused of the incident of burning of S 6 coach of Sabarmati Express train in Godhara of central Gujarat on February 27, 2002 a day after which state wide riots started in the western state that year. 59 people returning from Ayodhya were killed in the train burning incident. Yakub Pataliya (62) was nabbed by a police from Vachala Odha locality of in his home-twon Godhara in Panchmahal district in Januar...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat will pay Rs. 5 lakh relief assistant to nearest kin of each of 52 victims who died in year 2002 Sabarmati Express burning case in Godhra. In-total Rs. 260 crore sum will be paid in this connection from Chief Minister's Relief Fund. The amount has been transferred to State Legal Service Authority already according to a statement issued by the State government. According to minister of state (Home) Pradipsinh Jadeja, the Gujarat High Court had in its ...Read More