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 Bilkis Bano to depose before CBI court | | 2005-02-07 | NDTV Correspondent
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| 3 yrs later, cellphones start talking: who called whom when Gujarat was burning | | 2004-11-22 | Stavan Desai | The Indian Express | | Two CDs with more than 5 lakh entries have been lying with the Gujarat police and are now with the Nanavati-Shah riots panel. These have records of all cellphone calls made in Ahmedabad over the first five days of the riots which saw the worst massacres. Staff Reporter Stavan Desai spends several weeks unmasking the story hidden between and behind these numbers. The first of an exclusive series | | | |
| Zaheera’s U-turn comes full circle | | 2004-11-09 | Rupam Jain Nair | Expressindia | | Zaheera Sheikh now alleges that activist Teesta Setalvad forced her to name certain innocent persons as accused in the Best Bakery case. Incidentally, even before Setalvad took up the case, Zaheera had named these very persons in her affidavit before the riots commission—filed on her own accord.
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| 36 killed but only 1 FIR lodged | | 2004-11-06 | AKSHAYA MUKUL | The Times Of India | | This is the little known story of Dehlol village, 1 km off National Highway 8 and 28 km from Godhra, where 36 Muslims were killed on a single day, March 1, 2002, at the height of Gujarat violence. Yet only a single FIR was lodged.
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| Another witness testifies in Best Bakery re-trial | | 2004-11-05 | By Our Special Correspondent | The Hindu | | Shehzad Khan, who worked in the Best Bakery during the 2002 Gujarat riots, today told a Mumbai court holding the re-trial of the case that on the day of the killing he saw a mob of people coming towards the bakery shouting "kill the Muslims." | | | |
| 'Ratio of killings not proper' | | 2004-10-30 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: Another officer of the Gujarat police on Saturday gave shocking accounts before the Nanavati-Shah commission of the meticulous planning involved in the post-Godhra riots, how ministers in the Modi government had objected to police action in controlling them, and how senior police officers had toed the political line. | | | |
| Cop alleges political interference during Gujarat riots | | 2004-10-30 | NULL | Hindustan Times | | "It was not an easy task. I had to employ the services of AT&T and Celforce mobile companies to collect the numbers of calls made and received from and in the areas where riots were on. After collecting the numbers, I converted them onto a CD, a copy of which I had submitted to the crime branch," Sharma told the commission.
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| Biscuit maker testifies in Best Bakery trial
\n | | 2004-10-26 | Supriya Menon | NDTV | | biscuit maker today deposed before the special court investigating the Best Bakey carnage describing how he saw 14 people of his community being burnt alive in the bakery he worked in.
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| Riot cases opened for re-investigation | | 2004-10-23 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: The committee set up by the Supreme Court (SC) to review the 2,100 riot cases which had been closed, has cautiously picked 204 cases for reinvestigation, albeit, amid scare that some of them could involve policemen | | | |
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| Have reason, reopen case: DGP tells IGs | | 2004-10-21 | Rupam Jain Nair | Express India | | Ahmedabad, October 21: Directing to speed up the pace of re-investigation, in-charge Director General of Police A K Bhargav, who is heading the 10-member police team to assess the reopening of post-Godhra riot cases, passed a word of caution to the seven Inspector Generals by asking them to have concrete reasons before reopening any case.
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\nion, in-charge Director General of Police A K Bhargav, who is heading the 10-member police team to assess the reopening of post-Godhra riot cases, passed a word of caution to the seven Inspector Generals by asking them to have concrete reasons before reopening any case.
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| Rajkot police reopen gangrape case finally | | 2004-10-15 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | RAJKOT: Two-and-a-half years after the Gujarat riots, the police here have reopened a case in which a victim has alleged that she was gangraped by 20 persons, three of whom she had identified in her initial complaint.
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| Jafri fired after mob attacked | | 2004-09-28 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: The second round of cross-examination of police inspector KG Erda on Monday was marked by allegations, contradictions and heated arguments between lawyers.
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| No preventive measures were taken before Gulberg carnage | | 2004-09-27 | Reporter | NewKerela.com | | A police officer admitted Monday no preventive measures could be taken before the infamous Gulberg Society massacre, by far the worst incident during the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat.
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| Gulbarg burned for a week: Cop | | 2004-09-26 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: In a shocking revelation before the Nanavati-Shah commission, a police inspector on Saturday said Gulbarg Society was allowed to burn for a week after the massacre, destroying any remains of the victims. The official death toll in this incident was 39.
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| Modi knew karsevaks were coming: Top cop | | 2004-08-31 | HT Correspondent/PTI
\n | Hindustan Times | | R.B. Sreekumar, who became Additional DGP (Intelligence) in Gujarat in April 2002, two months after the Godhra train carnage, told the Nanavati commission on Tuesday that the Lucknow police had informed the Intelligence Bureau of the return of karsevaks from Ayodhya.
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| Even a PSI could bury three riot cases | | 2004-08-25 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times of India | | KALOL: You don't have to be influential to be able to manipulate and twist facts in Gujarat's riot cases of 2002 -now under scrutiny of the Supreme Court. | | | |
| Cop held for hushing up Kalol riot cases | | 2004-08-24 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | VADODARA: Police sub-inspector RJ Patil was arrested on Tuesday for his questionable role in handling a series of riot cases in Kalol taluka of the Panchmahals in March 2002. | | | |
| Activists draft anti-genocide law
\n | | 2004-08-24 | NDTV Correspondent
\n | NDTV | | Two years after the Gujarat riots left the country and the entire world in a state of shock, former judges, social activists and other eminent citizens have got together to draft a prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity act.
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| Modi wanted Godhra bodies to come to A'bad | | 2004-08-22 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: Former additional chief secretary (Home) Ashok Narayan told the Nanavati-Shah Commission of Inquiry on Saturday that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took the controversial decision of bringing all the 58 bodies of the Godhra carnage victims to Ahmedabad. | | | |
| SC sends cops running for cover | | 2004-08-21 | EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE | The Indian Express | | AHMEDABAD, AUGUST 20: The Supreme Court’s order to review more than 2,000 post-Godhra riot cases is giving the Gujarat police sleepless nights. | | | |
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| After Zahira, Bilkis's turn to speak out | | 2004-08-07 | LEENA MISRA | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat police are on tenterhooks after reports that the alleged gangrape victim, Bilkis Bano Yakub Rasool, is to address the media in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
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| Bilkis trial to be held in Mumbai | | 2004-08-07 | Mid Day Correspondent | Yahoo! | | The Supreme Court yesterday ordered that the trial in the two-year-old Bilkis rape case be transferred from Ahmedabad to Mumbai. | | | |
| While Gulbarg was burning, JCP was in ‘peaceful’ Dariapur | | 2004-08-02 | RUPAM JAIN NAIR | The Indian Express | | AHMEDABAD, AUGUST 2: While 89 people were being killed in Naroda-Patiya and Gulbarg Society was being set afire, resulting in 42 deaths, the then JCP (Sector II) M.K. Tandon stayed away. And, instead, he chose to monitor Dariapur where no major incidents were reported during the riots.
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