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British Indian Muslims Demand Presidential Rule in
Gujarat
4 May 2006
Council of Indian
Muslims—UK (CIM) has urged Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam to dismiss the
Government of the Chief Minister of Gujarat and impose presidential rule in
the state.
CIM Welcomes Conviction of Gujarat Riot Culprits
25 Feb 2006
Council of Indian Muslims — UK (CIM) has welcomed Indian court’s decision
sentencing for life nine of the 17 culprits of the infamous Best Bakery
case.
There May
be More Mass Graves in Gujarat—British Muslims
1 Jan 2006
London
based advocacy group, Council of Indian Muslims — UK (CIM) has deplored the
filing of cases against Muslims, who discovered mass grave in Gujarat, as
outrageous and travesty with justice. “This is what the minorities,
specially Muslims, can expect under the fascist Chief Minister like Narendra
Modi.” CIM’s chairman Mr Munaf Zeena said in a statement issued today.
British Indian MuslimsWelcome Godhra Panel's Report
18 Jan 2005
Council of Indian Muslims -UK (CIM) has
welcomed Banerjee Committee's report on the burning of Sabarmati Express
train in Godhra in February 2002 that was forthwith used as an excuse by
the Modi led government of Gujarat to kill more than 2,000 Muslims, mass
rape of women and wanton destruction of thousands of Muslim properties.
Court orders Gujarat riot review
17 Aug 2003
India's Supreme Court
has ordered police in the state of Gujarat to review some 2,000 riot cases
which were earlier dismissed as closed.
Former police chief testifies before Nanavati
Commission
17 August 2004
The man who was Ahmedabad's top policeman during the riots,
PC Pandey, testified before the Nanavati Commission,
Muslims welcome SC order on Gujarat
17 Aug 2004
Prominent Muslim groups
and individuals on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court order asking the
Gujarat government to reopen 2,000-odd riot cases. Out of the 4,200-odd
cases of violence and sexual assault lodged in Gujarat, the police had
closed around 2,000 cases saying the culprits could not be traced.
Bilkis case more potent than Best
9 Aug 2004
In more ways than one,
the Bilkisbano case,which will be heard by the Bombay High Court, could
prove to be a bigger embarrassment for the Narendra Modi government than
Best Bakery.
India bans documentary on anti-Muslim Gujarat riots
8 Aug 2004
India has
banned an internationally acclaimed film documenting bloody anti-Muslim
riots in 2002 in the Hindu nationalist-ruled state of Gujarat Director
Rakesh Sharma said yesterday that he would fight the censor board's ban by
distributing thousands of VCDs of The Final Solution for private screening.
Bilkis Bano: Another face of the Gujarat
8 Aug 2004
Another face
of the Gujarat riots has surfaced to haunt the Narendra Modi government —
Bilkis Bano Yakoob Rasool.
Venkaiah denies role of Gujarat riot in poll defeat
8 Aug 2004
BJP
president Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday took a hard line approach while
addressing a party workshop in Kolkata, denying the role of Gujarat riots in
the defeat of the NDA in the Lok Sabha polls and reiterating the commitment
of the BJP in building the temple at Ayodhya.
Godhra case reopened
17 July 2004
The Indian parliament was the scene of a
lively debate over the railway minister’s proposal to open a fresh
investigation into the Godhra train blaze. Minister Bihar Lalu Prasad
announced on Thursday a departmental inquiry into the 2002 Sabarmati Express
blaze that killed 59 people triggering widespread communal violence in
Gujarat in which more than 2000 people belonging to the minority Muslim
community lost their lives
Bilkis moves SC for trial outside
Gujarat
9 July 2004
The victim of a gangrape
in the post-Godhra riots, Bilkis Bano has moved the Supreme Court seeking
the trial of her case outside Gujarat.
Mini emergency in Gujarat: Keshubhai:
8 July 2004
Sending clear signals that the high
command's decision to give a `temporary reprieve' to Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi has not gone down well with his detractors, former Chief
Minister Keshubhai Patel, a known Modi critic, Tuesday said a situation
resembling a "mini-emergency' and an atmosphere of `fear' prevailed in the
state.
Film on Gujarat riots screened
7 July 2004
'Aakrosh', a film on Gujarat riots, which
was earlier denied a Censor Certificate, was yesterday officially screened
after being awarded a certificate by the board following a directive from
the Mumbai High Court.
Godhra hearings embarrass Modi
7 Jul 2004
The cross-examination of police officers and witnesses before
the two-member Nanavati Commission probing the Godhra carnage is turning out
to be a major embarrassment for Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his
government.
Centre "examining" new probe
Commission on Gujarat violence
6 July 2004
A demand for setting up a new Commission
of Inquiry to investigate the role of Gujarat government in post-Godhra
violence is under "examination" of the government, the Lok Sabha was
informed today.
Gujarat riots victims to be given
protection
6 July 2004
The Centre is considering a new plan to
provide protection to witnesses in Gujarat riots cases, Minister of State
for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said tonight.
Gujarat riots not responsible for NDA's defeat:
Vajpayee
4 July 2004
After
setting off churnings in BJP by his remarks on Gujarat riots and Chief
Minister Narendra Modi, former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today
said the riots in the state were not responsible for NDA's defeat in Lok
Sabha elections and he was not isolated on the issue in the party.
Gujarat riots had lord Ram’s blessings: VHP
4 July 2004
Rejecting former Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's contention that NDA’s poll debacle was due
to the Gujarat riots, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Saturday gave a clean
chit to Narendra Modi by justifying the violence in the state following the
Godhra carnage saying it "had the blessings of lord Rama".
Centre won't allow Gujarat-like incidents: Patil
4 July 2004
The Centre will not
allow a repeat of Gujarat-like riots and will do all that "is necessary" to
check such incidents, Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said even as the UPA
Government is considering enacting a new law to fight communal violence.
Questions on Gujarat irk Fernandes
2 July 2004
Questions on
whether the Gujarat episode was one of the reasons that led to the National
Democratic Alliance's defeat, irked NDA Convenor George Fernandes, who
sought to take the media to task for attempts to keep the issue alive.
I am not against Muslims: Thackeray
2 July 2004
Bal
Thackeray, the leader of the Hindu supremacist Shiv Sena party, says he is
not against Indian Muslims and blames "infiltrators" for stoking the fires
of religious hatred and sparking communal riots in India.
Five arrested for post Godhra riots
29 June 2004
Five
persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in Derol massacre
in Panchmahals district which claimed six lives during the post-Godhra
communal riots, police today said.
Investigator can't remember about S-6 fire
29 June 2004
For someone
who investigated a case as crucial as the Godhra carnage, retired DySP KC
Bava appeared to know very little. Bava, who was the first police officer to
be cross-examined on Tuesday, before the GS Nanavati and KG Shah commission,
claimed to know nothing about the second chain-pulling near A cabin where a
fire engulfed the Sabarmati express' S-6 coach killing 59 persons, mostly
kar sevaks.
Lagan behind Lagaan
29 June 2004
The most
notable thing about ‘Chale Chalo — the Lunacy of Film-making’, on the making
of Lagaan, is that it’s the first ever documentary to be commercially
released anywhere in this country.
Mazagaon court gets ready for Best retrial
27 June 2004
The
Mazagaon metropolitan court is being readied as the venue for the Best
Bakery trial. Following approval by the administrative judge of the Bombay
High Court, the Maharashtra government has moved in to secure the court
premises, allocate funds and ready infrastructure for the court.
The retrial
of the 21 persons accused of burning 14 people to death in the Best Bakery
at Vadodara during the Gujarat riots in 2002 is likely to commence in the
first week of August.
Cong unsure of stand on encounter
25 June 2004
As the home
ministry began “examining” the Gujarat government’s report on the
controversial June 15 encounter in which four persons were killed, the
Congress appeared uncertain about what political direction to give the case
because of elections in Maharashtra later this year.
Laloo plans to reopen Godhra case
7 June 2004
Railway Minister and
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav on Monday said the BJP-led
Opposition was targeting him in order to obstruct the reopening of the
Godhra carnage case. "I am not going to come under any pressure. I have
called for the related papers on the Godhra carnage and those responsible
will not be spared," Laloo told reporters here.
Atal frees rout from riot
1 June 2004
Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said “complacency” and
“over-confidence”, not the Gujarat riots, may have played a role in the
NDA’s shock defeat.
Narendra Modi stays till Tuesday
29 May
2004
The BJP will decide
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s fate at a party meet in New Delhi on
Tuesday, June 1. The group of dissidents has been asked to show its numbers
at the meet.
TDP defeat due to BJP stand on Modi: Naidu
28 May 2004
Telugu
Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu Friday said his party's defeat
in the assembly and parliamentary poll was caused by the Bharatiya Janata
Party's refusal to remove Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the
2002 riots.
Irfan can't bridge Hindu-Muslim divide
27 May 2004
Ustad Allauddin Khan is widely considered the greatest
Indian musician of the last century. He was the guru of Pt. Ravi Shankar. A
Madhya Pradesh Government music academy is named after him. Last month,
State Culture Minister, who is also Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s
nephew, decided to drop the Ustad’s name from the academy. The charge: he
was a foreigner. Incidentally, even his shishya Ravi Shankar did not utter a
word of protest.
The same is true of other Muslim icons — whether Dilip Kumar or Shahrukh
Khan. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is acceptable only so long as he
suppresses his Muslim identity. His achievements in space and nuclear
science and his vast service to the country would amount to nothing in the
face of a saffron onslaught.
Communal polarity major factor in Ahmedabad
19 March 04
When they had Ahsan
Jaffrey (1977) as their member of Parliament, the Congress was secure in
Ahmedabad.
But now more than 30
years later, not only are they trying to forget Ahsan Jaffrey, the former MP
was burnt alive by a mob during the Gujarat riots, but also running around
to find a candidate to field.
Identify key Gujarat riot case witnesses for central
protection: SC
15 March 2004
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to identify key
witnesses in the nine Gujarat riot cases, trial in which have been stayed on
its orders, for the purpose of making arrangements of their security by
central police forces like CRPF.
VHP cold-shoulders Godhra second anniversary
27 Feb 04
The
second anniversary of the train burning passed off virtually unnoticed in
the state and even the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) commemorated only in
Ahmedabad the death of its activists on Feb 27, 2002.
Gujarat riots: SC seeks Centre's response
27 Feb 04
The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Union
Government on the demand of witnesses in the
Gujarat riot cases for
protection by central forces like the CRPF. The government has been asked to
file a reply by March 15.
UK-based charities fund violence in India: Report.
26 Feb 04
A report released today by a UK-based campaign group has
alleged that charities registered in the
UK have played a key role
in funding hardline Hindu groups which were allegedly responsible for
sectarian violence in
India.
Witnesses, probe teams under threat: NHRC pointman
25 Feb 04
The National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC) special rapporteur in Gujarat has complained that
teams working to uncover state police lapses during the post-Godhra riots
are under threat and this has prompted amicus curiae Harish Salve to suggest
to the Supreme Court that Central protection be provided to both witnesses
and victims in riot cases.
Tension resurfaces in Godhra, police stoned
19 Feb 04
Gujarat's communally
volatile town of Godhra was back in the limelight on Wednesday as mobs threw
stones at a police team that had gone there to arrest some people accused of
setting ablaze a train in 2002.
Film on Gujarat riots bags awards at Berlin festival
16 Feb 04
A documentary
film on the aftermath of the bloody
Gujarat
riots in 2002 has won two awards at the 54th
Berlin
international film festival. "Final Solution" bagged the honours at
Berlinale 2004 Sunday night.
Supreme Court issues notice to Gujarat on riot case
16 Feb 04
Supreme Court
Monday issued notice to the
Gujarat government on a petition seeking transfer of
trial in the Godhra train carnage outside the state to ensure it is free and
fair. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice V.N. Khare and judges A.R.
Lakshmanan and S.H. Kapadia, was hearing a petition filed by NGO Citizens
for Justice and Peace.
The Indian Express
chosen for IPI India Award
15 Feb 04
English daily The
Indian Express has been chosen for the first IPI India Award for its
reporting of the Gujarat riots and the aftermath, it was announced in New
Delhi on Sunday.
Bilkis rape case: CBI submits report
to SC
12 Feb 04
The CBI today filed in the
Supreme Court its probe report in the Bilkis rape case and murder of 14
people of the minority community during the Gujarat riots. The report was filed in the apex court registry
in a sealed cover a day prior to the hearing of the petition by the victim--Bilkis
Yakoob Rasool--who was allegedly gangraped by rioters at Linkheda in Dahod
district of Gujarat.
Police submit Gujarat riot report
12 Feb 04
India's
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a report to the Supreme
Court on an alleged gang rape and murder of Muslims during the 2002 Gujarat
riots.
Gujarat's shock over girls' murder
11 Feb 04
Roshanbano is
trying to understand why her husband threw their five daughters from a
bridge to their deaths last week, before attempting to commit suicide.
Salt in mass grave may explain Gujarat’s missing in
Bilkis case
8 Feb 04
The CBI, probing the
mass rape and murder of 14 people during the Gujarat riots, claims they have
found several packets of salt while exhuming human remains from a mass grave
in Dahod — the Gujarat police claimed the victims were missing — suspected
to be the site where bodies of family members of Bilkis Yaqoob Rasool were
dumped.
Mass rape & murder: Exhumed in Gujarat, remains
come to Delhi
6 Feb 04
Exhibits lined up in a
laboratory in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) since
Wednesday may hold evidence of the mass rape and murder of 14 people in the
Gujarat riots.
Film festival war erupts in Bombay
6 Feb 04
Angry
Indian documentary-makers have set up a rival film festival after accusing a
government-sponsored event of rejecting controversial films.
CBI locates bodies of Gujarat riot victims
2 Feb 04
The CBI has now got some fresh leads into one of the most
horrific cases in the post-Godhra violence in
Gujarat. The skeletal
remains of at least three persons have been unearthed from the forests of
Dahod in Gujarat which the CBI suspect could be remains of the members of
the family of Bilkis Banu.
Amid ghosts of her dead, Bilqis gives birth to a
girl
2
Feb 04
Bilqis Yaqoob Rasool
lived one more day of contrasts this Sunday. About the same time as a CBI
team was digging up human remains which may finally lift the veil off the
rape and massacre of her family during the Gujarat riots, she delivered a
baby girl at a hospital in the place where it all started, Godhra.
Saffron tint for khaki force?
31 Jan
04
Despite
stiff resistance from senior police officers and fears that the move would
lead to a further saffronisation of the Gujarat Police, the state government
has gone ahead and issued a Government Resolution (GR) to recruit 'lok
rakshaks' to fill vacancies in the constabulary.
Digging for truth at riot mass grave
30 Jan 04
Forensic experts have started exhuming the bodies
of seven persons who were killed and buried at Panivela village near Godhra
during the Gujarat communal riots.
SC admits Zahira’s appeal against Best Bakery
acquittal
30 Jan
04
The Supreme Court today
issued notice to the Gujarat government while admitting an appeal filed by
Zahira Sheikh, a key witness in the Best Bakery carnage case, challenging a
Gujarat High Court order upholding the acquittal of all 21 accused in the
case.
CBI questions TV reporter who exposed 'warrants'
racket
30 Jan 04
The CBI on Friday examined a private television reporter
who exposed an alleged racket in Ahmedabad by securing warrants against the
President, the Chief Justice of India and a sitting Judge of the Supreme
Court by a Metropolitan Magistrate.
Warrant against Prez, CJI, SC judge!
28 Jan 04
Supreme Court Chief
Justice V N Khare was on Wednesday stunned when he was told that a
metropolitan magistrate in Ahmedabad has issued bailable warrants against
him, the President and others without any case against them.
12 arrested for rape, murder in Gujarat riots
23 Jan 04
Indian police arrested 12 people on Thursday for the
alleged gangrape of three women and killing of seven villagers during riots
between Hindus and Muslims in western state of
Gujarat in 2002
H T Sangliana joins BJP
23 Jan
04
Former
Bangalore police commissioner Hmar Tlawmte Sangliana, who had first arrested
Karim Lala Telgi, the kingpin in the stamp scam case, joined the BJP here on
Thursday.
Arrests over Gujarat riots case
22 Jan
04
Federal
police in India have arrested 12 people on charges of murder and gang rape
during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Plan for Modi's yatra in US kicks up a row
21 Jan
04
An
invitation extended by some influential non-resident Gujaratis (NRGs) to
Chief Minister Narendra Modi to undertake a 'Gaurav Yatra' in the USA is
generating a lot of heat among Indian Americans settled across North America
.
Nanavati panel to submit report by June 6
21 Jan 04
The Gujarat Government today fixed June 6 for the
submission of the report by the two-member Nanavati-Shah Commission
appointed to probe the February 27, 2002 Godhra train carnage and subsequent
State-wide riots.
Indian Filmmakers Feel Sting of Censorship
17 Jan 04
The camera closes in on a
shy 6-year-old Muslim boy standing in his classroom. He tells the story of
how his grandfather and aunt were killed by angry Hindu mobs in the Indian
state of Gujarat almost two years ago.
"When my father went to
save them, the Hindus chopped his fingers off," he says and stretches out
his tiny fingers, enacting what he saw on that day.
Those guilty in Gujarat riots will be punished: PM
13 Jan
04
Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday assured that those guilty of post-Godhra
communal riots in Gujarat would be punished and said minority community
members should be protected.
US lawmakers meet Gujarat riot victims
9 Jan
04
Members of a delegation
of US Congressmen led by Joseph Pitts, currently on a week-long tour of
India, today said they were touched by the suffering of the people affected
by the Gujarat riots.
US Congress wants justice for riot victims
A
four-member delegation of Congressmen from the United States who are camping
in Ahmedabad, emphasised that alongwith initiatives for peace and harmony,
prosecution of the perpetrators of violence should also be given importance.
Gujarat riots: Bilkis finally has glimpse of
justice, 3 booked for rape, murder
7 Jan 04
Registering its first
case pertaining to the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat following a Supreme
Court directive, the CBI has booked three persons and some other unknown
people for allegedly gangraping the sisters of Bilkis Yakub Rasool and
murdering her relatives. Cases have been registered against Jaswant Nai,
Govind Nai and Naresh Moriya under several sections of the IPC for murder,
rape and rioting on the complaint of Bilkis.
CBI files Gujarat riot rape case
7 Jan
004
The CBI
has registered a case to probe charges of gangrape and murder of relatives
of a pregnant woman in Gujarat in a fallout of the post-Godhra riots.
One convicted for murder during Gujarat riots
5 Jan 2004
A local court today
awarded life imprisonment to a person for hacking to death one woman, when a
rioting mob attacked her and her husband during post-Godhra communal riots
in Vasna area in March 2002.
Juhapura strives for self-sufficiency
5 Jan
2004
Call it
the ultimate step in ghettoisation or the silver lining of communal riots.
But experience has taught the denizens of Juhapura that there is no
alternative to self-sufficiency.
No prima facie case, trial court discharges all 13
2 January 2003
The Detection of Crime
Branch (DCB) here suffered a major setback on Friday when all 13 persons,
accused of conspiring to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the 2002
riots, were discharged by a trial court. The court held that ‘‘there was no
prima facie case to frame charges against the accused.’’ However, the order
has been stayed till January 9 to allow the state government to file an
appeal in the high court.
Healing the orphans of Gujarat's riots
31 December 2003
"They
surrounded us from all sides and set us on fire inside our compound. Of the
11 family members, my father, grandmother, uncle, my sister, my auntie,
died. Eight died. Three of us survived - me, my younger sister and my
mother."
Bilal's return to Gujarat
31
December 2003
In
February 2002, three British tourists were murdered in Gujarat in a wave of
anti-Muslim violence. Bilal Dawood is the brother of one of the men and the
cousin of another. Crossing Continents joined him as he revisited the scene
of the crime.
HC upholds acquittal in Best Bakery case
26 December
2003
In a setback to
proponents of re-trial in the Best Bakery case, the Gujarat High Court on
Friday dismissed the state government's "amended" appeal filed at the
Supreme Court's behest challenging the acquittal of 21 accused and also an
application seeking their retrial.
24
December 2003
A report
released by rights groups Wednesday says while the government looks on,
Muslim women in the western Indian state of Gujarat continue to face
different forms of violence in their daily lives, nearly two years after the
state was torn apart by anti-Muslim riots.
SC notice on death of Britons in Gujarat riots
20
December 2003
The
Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Gujarat government and the
Centre on a petition by UK-based Imran Mohammad Salim Dawood alleging that
he and his relatives were cornered by a mob on February 28, a day after the
Godhra train carnage incident.
Modi’s latest to SC: if you move riot cases out, it
may put communal harmony in danger
20 December 2003
In a veiled warning,
the Narendra Modi Government today raised fears of communal disturbances
returning to the state if the Supreme Court transferred out the trial of any
of the Gujarat riot cases.
Gujarat govt against transfer of post Godhra riot
cases
19 December
2003
The Gujarat
government today strongly opposed before the Supreme Court transfer of five
major post Godhra riot cases, including the Best Bakery case, for trial
outside the state, asserting that it had taken all corrective measures to
ensure free and fair trial within the state.
Pandya case: two accused from Hyderabad apply for
bail
8 December
2003
Two of the 19
accused in the sensational murder case of former Gujarat Home and Revenue
Minister Haren Pandya on Monday applied for bail in special POTA court.
Situation in Gujarat is Worse Than it was in
2003 ‑ Claims Jesuit Priest
30 November 2003
Inter communal relations in the western Indian
state of Gujarat are “worse than” they were “on 1st, 2nd, 3rd and
5th of March 2002”, a Jesuit Priest Father Cedric Prakash s.j.
told a meeting jointly organised by the Council of Indian Muslims – UK
Riot victims allege delay by banks
21 October 2003
Zafar Ajmeri, who ran a
relief camp in Dani Limda area, during the post-Godhra communal riots and
represented many riot victims, told Justice (retd) G T Nanavati and Justice
(retd) K G Shah that many were turned down by banks as they said they were
short of money allocated for disbursement of compensation.
Post-Godhra riots: Four get life term for murder
17 October
2003
In the first-ever
conviction in the Gujarat riots cases, a fast track court in Vadodara on
Thursday sentenced four people to life imprisonment but acquitted two
others, including former deputy mayor Nissar Hussain.
Gujarat lawyers split over NHRC plea
14 October 2003
The Supreme Court hearing
in the Best Bakery case has forced lawyers in Gujarat into two opposing
camps—those who oppose the National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) move to
take the case to the apex court and those who support it.
Vajpayee condemns Gujarat riots
10 October 2003
Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee on Friday night strongly condemned last year's communal riots in Gujarat following the 'Godhra train carnage' and noted that "those in the
administration are now in the dock."
Gujarat riots cases: Advani blames lapses on justice
system
9 October 2003
Deputy Prime Minister Lal
Kishenchand Advani acknowledged today that the Supreme Court's observations
on the handling of riot cases by the Gujarat government were embarrassing, but said it had to be
seen in the context of the wider criminal justice system.
We don't expect to
get justice in Gujarat: eyewitnesses
8 October
2003
Zakia Naseem Jafri,
wife of Ehsan Jafri former Congress MP killed in last year's violence in
Gujarat, said today that families like hers had no expectation of justice in
the State.
Godhra victims want probe shifted
6 October 2003
The Sangh
Parivar came in for a searing indictment on Sunday afternoon for "practising
the politics of hate and communalism." For a change, the critics this time
were family members of some of those Hindus, who were burnt alive in the S-6
coach of Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002 at Godhra. They have been demanding that the probe should shift
outside Gujarat.
RSS trains guns on Digvijay, NHRC
4 October 2003
Rashtriya Swayasevak Sangh
chief K S Sudarshan in his traditional Vijayadashami speech on Saturday
attacked the National Human Rights Commission for its action in Best Bakery
case.
RSS accuses NHRC of bias in Best Bakery case
4 October
2003
RSS on Saturday launched a scathing attack on National Human Rights
Commission for raking up the Best Bakery case, accusing it of bias and
"utter disregard for Hindus" for not taking up the case of Hindus killed in
1993 Mumbai riots.
Film captures riot horrors in Gujarat
3 ctober 2003
The 53-minute documentary
is the story of a family of seven living in the Poor Quarters of Ahmedabad.
All their belongings were stolen, even the livestock. The elder daughter of
the family, Noorjahan, was beaten repeatedly and yet, the neighbours did not
come to help.
Gujarat riots were an aberration: Advani
28 September 2003
Terming last year's
communal riots in Gujarat as an aberration, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on Sunday
asserted that the state would not allow its reputation to be sullied by the
adverse propaganda unleashed by forces at home and abroad.
After Modi, Gujarat police faces SC wrath,
ordered to 'keep off' rape victim
26 September 20003
The Supreme Court on
Thursday asked Gujarat police to "keep off" the petitioner and riot victim Bilkis Yakub Rasool,
who was raped during the Gujarat riots, till the
court decided her plea for transfer of the sexual assault case from state
police to CBI.
Renovation a plot, say Best Bakery witnesses
26
September 2003
Nafitullah
Sheikh, brother of Zahira, a key witness in the infamous Best Bakery case of
the 2002 Gujarat riots, told the Press Trust of India in Baroda on Thursday
that renovation work being undertaken at the bakery by his first wife
Yasminbanu was part of a conspiracy and the family would get a legal notice
to stop it.
Zahira’s sister Saira leaves Baroda in fear
20 September 2003
Zahira Sheikh’s younger
sister Saira Habibullah Sheikh, who stayed put in Baroda after the Best
Bakery incident, has now left Baroda with her husband, reportedly because she fears her life may
be in danger.
Anti-Muslim Rioters face murder retrial
20 September 2003
India's western state of Gujarat has agreed to
seek a retrial of 21 Hindus acquitted of murder during religious riots,
following scathing criticism from the Supreme Court.
Revoke rabid Togadia's licence: Medicos
20 September 2003
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
leader Dr Praveen Togadia, an oncologist by profession, has come under
attack from his own fraternity.
Follow ''Raj Dharm'', remove Modi, Agnivesh tells
Vajpyaee
17 September
2003
Expressing doubts over the findings of state agencies regarding the
conspiracy behind the Godhra incident, he said one-and-a-half years had
passed but any convincing account of the incident of torching of Sabarmati
Express compartment was yet to come from any quarter.He claimed that 45 of
the 69 people who were allegedly burnt alive in the Godhra train torching
incident were alive, well and living in different villages of Gujarat.
Pushed to the brink, India's Muslims resort to
terrorism
17 September 2003
The four
people arrested in connection with the attacks were Indian Muslims,
part of a new group called the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force.
The New Terrorists 16 September
2003
"They would slip into the ways of violence and
terrorism," says V Balachandran, who retired as special secretary in India's
external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, "because there
is nobody to listen to their problems, complaints and needs." Balachandran
says the government must address and negate the feeling of alienation among
this segment of the population. "It is time the Indian government talked to
this particular section."
Look who’s just got the keys to justice in riots
15
September 2003
If there was one theme in the Supreme Court’s unprecedented
indictment of the Modi government on Friday, it was: get justice to the riot
victims, get the guilty—that’s what governance is all about. But the Gujarat government, it
seems, has a slightly different view.
India's Muslim Time Bomb
15 September
2003
...Hindu nationalists
in New
Delhi and the provinces seem eager to expand the Indian Muslim list of
grievances.
Heart of darkness
15 September 2003
As a young backpacker Luke Harding found India charming
and eccentric. Fifteen years later he returned as the Guardian's
correspondent. Now, after finishing his time there, he recalls how one
terrible incident of sectarian violence in Gujarat brought his love affair with the country to an
end
Riot victims seek justice in India 15 September 2003
Many Muslims in the state say it's nearly
impossible for them to get justice in a state where nearly all state
officials, from the chief minister to the cop on the street, share the
pro-Hindu polices of the ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Gujarat and the judges' anger
15 September
2003
In July, the US-based group Human Rights Watch
said that more than 100 Muslims had been charged over alleged involvement in
the attack on the train at Godhra. In contrast, no Hindus have been charged
over the violence against the Muslims.
Clinton set for event on India unrest 15 September 2003
Indian Muslims wonder the foundation didn't
organize a fundraiser a year
later for another Gujarat disaster, when Hindu mobs killed more than 2,000
239 of 240 booked under POTA in Gujarat are Muslims:
Report
15
September 2003
All but one of those
charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in Gujarat are Muslims,
a report said on Monday.
Quit if you can't punish the guilty, Supreme Court
tells Modi
12
September 2003
The Supreme
Court on Friday delivered a stinging blow to the Narendra Modi government
for not trying to seek a retrial of the accused in the Best Bakery case,
setting the stage for yet another confrontation between the Sangh Parivar
and its opponents over last year’s Gujarat
riots
Zaheera happy with SC stricture
12 September 2003
Zaheera Shaikh,
the feisty eyewitness who took up cudgels against the Narendra Modi
government in the Best Bakery riots case by demanding reopening of the case,
on Friday expressed satisfaction over Supreme Court's criticism of the state
government in the case.
BJP rules out resignation of Modi
12 September 2003
NEW DELHI:
BJP today ruled out resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as
demanded by Congress in the wake of the severe criticism by the Supreme
Court of the state government in the Best Bakery riot case and doubting the
state's intentions on punishing the guilty and observing that it should quit
if it cannot punish the rioters.
How Modi's counsel stooped low in bid to conquer
12
September 2003
The Narendra Modi
Government on Friday came up with two politically loaded arguments while
countering the NHRC's legal plea for a retrial of the Best Bakery case.
Rattled Modi calls up Advani, Venkaiah, says it's
'legal' don't worry
12
September 2003
NEW DELHI: Although the BJP
put up a brave face after the Supreme Court's scathing remarks on Friday,
party sources said that the leadership was clearly rattled by the first ever
indictment of the Modi government by the nation's highest court.
82, including Dawood, booked under POTA
11
September 2003
The Crime Branch
(Detection) of Ahmedabad City Police on Wednesday filed a ``coded''
chargesheet against 82 persons before the special POTA court in the case
wherein city youths had allegedly received terrorist training in Pakistan
and had ``conspired to wage war against the state.''
12 hurt as communal violence breaks out in 3 Gujarat
cities
9 September 2003
At least 12 people were
injured on Tuesday when Hindus and Muslims clashed during festivities on the
last day of Ganesh Chaturthi in Gujarat, police said.
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