The special court that sentenced 31 people for burning 33 Muslims to death in Sardarpura, Gujarat, did not find enough evidence to support the prosecution’s conspiracy theory. This was one of the reasons the defence argued successfully for life sentences for its clients, held guilty of murder and rioting. Principal judge S C Srivasatava’s 1,024-page judgment explained why seven incidents from 2002 — some of which the prosecution cited in 2008...

The special court that sentenced 31 people for burning 33 Muslims to death in Sardarpura, Gujarat, did not find enough evidence to support the prosecution’s conspiracy theory. This was one of the reasons the defence argued successfully for life sentences for its clients, held guilty of murder and rioting. Principal judge S C Srivasatava’s 1,024-page judgment explained why seven incidents from 2002 — some of which the prosecution cited in 2008...

Bihar's recent economic growth has created a peculiar problem for real estate and infrastructure firms in other parts of the country.  Migrant labour from the state constitutes around 50% of the unskilled workers employed in these sectors nationally, but increased government expenditure and private investment has caused rural migration from Bihar to fall by a third in recent years, resulting in labour shortages and 35-50% higher wage Bills for real estate...

-The Economic Times   CBI carried out searches at 10 places in and around Lucknow over the weekend as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission programme in Uttar Pradesh. Searches were carried out in offices of NGOs which had been tasked with running NRHM programmes.  Officers of the investigating agency were busy assessing details of seizures made during the searches. This was the second round of...

-The Hindu   A member of the district unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said that he was being harassed by some officials and members of Paduperar Gram Panchayat for exposing financial irregularities in the panchayat. PUCL member and RTI activist Roshan Lobo told presspersons that he had exposed a number of irregularities in the panchayat, because of which he was being harassed. He has lodged a complaint with the police. Holding...