-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: A special SIT court on Monday sentenced 21 people to life imprisonment for attempt to murder and arson in the 2002 post-Godhra riot of Dipda Darwaza in which 11 Muslims were killed in Visnagar town of north Gujarat. All the victims belonged to the same family. In addition to the 21 found guilty, M K Patel, the then police inspector of Visnagar and also the first investigator...
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Life term for 21 in Dipda Darwaja massacre case-Manas Dasgupta
-The Hindu The incident occurred a day after Godhra train carnage; two BJP leaders acquitted A designated fast track court in Mehsana on Monday sentenced 21 persons to life imprisonment and another to one-year imprisonment in the Dipda Darwaja post-Godhra massacre case. Designated judge S.C. Srivastava acquitted 61 persons. None of the accused was found guilty of murder or pre-planned conspiracy and the conviction was on the charges of attempt to murder and...
More »Cop gets jail for not filing accurate FIR-Parimal Dabhi
-The Indian Express Ahmedabad: Manubhai Karsanbhai Patel, a retired policeman who was the first investigating officer in the Dipda Darwaza massacre case, on Monday became the first policeman to be convicted and sentenced in any of the post-Godhra Riot Cases. Patel was charged with not filing an accurate FIR, not reporting that 11 people had gone missing on the day of the riot and not protecting evidence of the massacre. He was...
More »SC admits plea against acquittal in Bihar massacre
-IANS The Supreme Court on Monday admitted a Bihar government plea challenging the acquittal of 23 accused in the massacre of 20 Dalits by the Ranvir Sena in Bathani Tola in Bhojpur district in 1996. An apex court bench of justice Altamas Kabir and justice J Chelameswar admitted the plea and issued notice to the acquitted accused. The trial court had convicted all the 23 accused and had awarded death sentence to...
More »We didn’t issue any ‘Talibani firmans,’ say elders-Jiby Kattakayam & Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Asara leaders say the media has not reported all decisions such as ban on dowry & compulsory schooling The leaders of the Samaj Sudhar Sabha in Asara village here, who recently ordered women to stop using mobile phones, have claimed that they had never imposed any “blanket ban” and only restrained them from using mobile phones while stepping out of their homes. However, the Sabha members did not backtrack on...
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