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Gujarat massacre: 23 killed, 23 guilty, 23 acquitted

-The Times of India   More than a decade after 23 people, mostly women and children, were killed when a mob set ablaze a shelter for Muslims huddled together for safety in Ode during the post-Godhra riots, a Gujarat court on Monday found 23 of the suspects guilty of murder and conspiracy. The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) has sought the death sentence for those convicted of murder.  The special court in...

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23 guilty in Gujarat riot case by Basant Rawat

A Gujarat court today convicted 23 of the 46 accused in a 2002 riot case in which a mob torched a house where four families had taken shelter, killing 23 people. The court in Anand district will hand down the sentences on April 12 in the so-called “Ode massacre” or “Pirawali massacre”, one of the nine cases probed by the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT). This is the third Gujarat riot...

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Gulberg Society massacre: court reserves order

-The Hindu The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court on Tuesday reserved its order till April 10 on a plea for making public the report of the Supreme Court–appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the 2002 Gulberg Society carnage. The SIT submitted the report in a sealed cover last month and all the documents and evidences of over 20,000 pages earlier this month in five locked trunks for the court's perusal. ...

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Gujarat 2002 and Modi’s Misdeeds by Anand Teltumbde

Ten years after the killings in Gujarat, Narendra Modi has neither expressed regret nor has he been held accountable for those mass deaths. Where do we go from here? Anand Teltumbde (tanandraj@gmail.com) is a writer and civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.   Just thinking of it, a shiver runs down my spine. I had my own brush with how the Hindutva gangs carried out the...

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Overnight prosperity clue to industry cash flow to Maoists by Jaideep Hardikar

A bidi-smoking petty contractor who suddenly bought two Boleros and a former newspaper hawker who zipped about Chhattisgarh’s jungles in a Toyota may hold the key to a question bugging the custodians of national security. What the police want to know is: are business houses paying off the Maoists to be able to operate deep inside central India’s mineral-rich guerrilla zones? Chhattisgarh police say that when contractor B.K. Lala’s bank account suddenly...

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