In the past week the media has been reporting that the SIT has filed a closure report that gives a “clean chit” to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the grounds that there is no prosecutable evidence against him. However, Tehelka has now scooped amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran’s explosive confidential report that had told the Supreme Court that Modi should be chargesheeted and prosecuted for serious criminal offences like promoting religious...
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SIT shielding Modi from prosecution: Ex-DGP
-PTI Former Gujarat DGP, RB Sreekumar on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) for allegedly taking a pro-Narendra Modi line in the probe into the 2002 riots cases, to shield him from the prosecution. In an open letter to the people, Sreekumar, who headed the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) during the riots period, has also made public his first statement before the SIT in May 2008. He had then talked...
More »7 held for murder of RTI activist
-The Hindu The Ahmedabad police on Saturday arrested seven persons in connection with the November 5 murder of Congress worker and RTI activist Nadeem Sayed, a key witness in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Among them was Kalu Gardan, who, it was claimed, knifed Nadeem when he came out of his Juhapura residence. While the motive was still not known, the police earlier detained a builder, Mehboob senior,...
More »Gulberg Society case order reserved by Manas Dasgupta
The special court judge hearing the Gulberg Society massacre trial has reserved his order till November 18 on the plea of the advocate of the riot victims to stay the proceedings till the Supreme Court–appointed Special Investigation Team submitted its final report. Advocate S.M. Vora had moved the court to stay the trial after the SIT refused to submit its report before the special court and informed last month that as...
More »They crammed into a tiny room, mob locked it and set it on fire by Parimal Dabhi
Sardarpura, 50 km from Mehsana town and not far from Vadnagar, home of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had been declared a Samras village, part of one of the first schemes launched by Modi after he took charge in 2001. Under the scheme, a village could appoint its sarpanch unanimously without an election. In Sardarpura, sarpanch Kachra Tribhovan Patel and former sarpanch Kanu Joitaram Patel were among the accused. Both were among...
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