-Express News Service   A special riots court awarded life sentences to 31 people, mostly landed Patels of Sardarpura village in this district, for killing 33 Muslims who were employed as their farm labourers and were their neighbours, to avenge the Godhra train burning of February 27, 2002. Of the dead, 17 were women and 11 children. Principal District Judge S C Srivastava convicted them for murder, rioting and promoting enmity between different...

Two days after a mob of 300 Trinamool workers and supporters stormed a police station in the heart of Kolkata, assaulted policemen and vandalised government and private vehicles, the police have filed a preliminary report of the rioting — and indicted their own men. The mob, comprising members of two clubs in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s south Kolkata neighbourhood, fought street battles with policemen from Bhowanipore police station who had asked...

-DNA   Around 50 RTI activists, many of whom had come from other places after having driven for 5-6 hours, held a silent protest on Sunday in the Juhapura locality of Ahmedabad. A day earlier, Nadeem Saiyed, an RTI activist and riot case Witness, was hacked to death in this very locality. Strangely, very few people of Juhapura took part in the protest despite the fact that Saiyed was a resident of this...

An RTI activist, who stumbled over words used in his own affidavit, was refused permission to cross-examine Witnesses in the Adarsh scam case. Hearing an application filed by Adarsh society members objecting to Santosh Daundkar's plea to grill Witnesses, the judicial commission of Justice (retired) J A Patil and member P Subhramanyam however dismissed the plea to throw out the affidavit and evidence submitted by the activist. The Adarsh panel had...

-Express News Service Nadeem Saiyed, a key Witness to the Naroda Patiya massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots, was brutally killed on the main street of Juhapura on Saturday. He was stabbed 25 times, just steps away from the anti-terrorism group headquarters. Two Juhapura residents, Firdos Mullah and Mushir Ahmed, have been booked for murder and conspiracy. Saiyed’s father named them along with several others, accusing them of ordering his killing. A police informer...