A confidential report by a Supreme Court-appointed lawyer has contradicted the special investigation team’s (SIT) findings on two crucial aspects to decide the role of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and top police officials in the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre case. Raju Ramachandran, amicus curiae (friend of the court), has in his report found “no clinching evidence” to dispute the presence of suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt at Modi’s residence...
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Charged with terror, damned by aliases by Vidya Subrahmaniam
Mohammad Aamir had just turned 18, when one February day in 1998, he was ambushed by a police van. A month later, he found himself thrown against the cold, forbidding walls of a prison cell in the capital's Tihar jail. The charges were murder, terrorism and waging war against the nation. Aamir, released in January this year after 14 years, was named the main accused in 20 low-intensity bomb blasts executed...
More »Nandi murder charge on absconder Seth
-The Telegraph CPM leader Lakshman Seth has been accused of murder in a CID chargesheet over the disappearance of six anti-land acquisition protesters during the party’s recapture of Nandigram in November 2007. The chargesheet, submitted to the Haldia sub-divisional court around 5.10pm, also names 87 other CPM leaders and workers. “Seth has been mentioned in the chargesheet as an accused who is absconding,” a senior CID official said. Hours after the CID submitted the...
More »SC raps Army for stalling Pathribal case by Krishnadas Rajagopal
The Supreme Court on Monday told the Army to not “play with the courts” and stop taking recourse to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to stall prosecution in the 2000 Pathribal encounter case in Jammu and Kashmir. The apex court asked the Army to come clean on whether they want to start court martial proceedings of eight officers accused of killing five persons in the encounter or let...
More »AMRI families raise arrest question by Rith Basu
As many as 68 families who lost relatives in the AMRI Dhakuria fire met at the Nandan complex this morning to raise safety awareness but some were unable to mask the anger at police’s inability to arrest anyone on duty that night. “I still can’t forget how the security personnel kept insisting that the smoke could never enter the ICU, where my father was. He was a cardiac patient and his...
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