-The Hindu The former Director-General of Police of Gujarat, Julio Francis Ribeiro, on Thursday condemned the arrest of suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who took on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots. “I condemn the action of the Modi government arresting him and doing something unconscionable which is not within the limits of morality,” Mr. Ribeiro told a press conference organised by...
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Gujarat RTI activist complains of police harassment by Manas Dasgupta
“They are trying to intimidate me, my family and my well-wishers” A Vadodara-based social activist and environmentalist, Rohit Prajapati, has complained of “harassment and intimidation” by the police for making RTI queries regarding the State government's environment policies. He claimed that the police and the Special Operations Group were “questioning” him, asking for photographs and making other inquiries in the past couple of years. While the police claimed these to be “routine...
More »Bharatpur riots: CBI files five FIRs
-Express News Service Taking over the investigations into the Gopalgarh riots, the CBI on Wednesday registered five FIRs in the case. The investigating agency has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an SP for an expeditious probe into the case. A CBI spokesperson said the agency took over the investigations following a request from the Rajasthan government. A CBI team, accompanied by forensics experts, visited Bharatpur last week and collected...
More »2G scam: Does govt think we are keeping businessmen in jail, asks SC
-The Economic Times The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know if the Centre and the CBI were on the same page on the prosecution of the 2G scam accused, given law minister Salman Khurshid's reported statement that investor sentiment would be hurt if courts ordered the arrests of business persons. A bench of Justices GS Singhvi and HL Dattu said the statement implied that the SC wanted to keep businessmen in...
More »Goa Speaker will decide today on PAC report on illegal mining by Prakash Kamat
Majority of the PAC members decline to sign it The fate of the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Goa Assembly headed by the Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar (BJP), which has reportedly indicted the government agencies and blamed the nexus of politicians in power and bureaucrats for illegal mining, will be decided by Speaker Pratapsinh Rane on Friday, the last day of the brief session of...
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