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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
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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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| 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
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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
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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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| Didn't think it necessary to rush to Jafri's aid: Tandon | | 2004-08-02 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: Additional DGP MK Tandon stated before the Nanavati-Shah commission on Monday that he did not find it necessary to personally rush to the aid of ex-MP Ehsaan Jafri, who died in the Gulbarg Society massacre on February 28, 2002. | | | |
| Tandon's testimony rattles establishment | | 2004-07-29 | LEENA MISRA | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: When additional DGP MK Tandon emerged from the Nanavati-Shah Commission on Wednesday after the cross-examination, several police officers were sweating. Some were angry. | | | |
| When Gulbarg burned, top cop was missing | | 2004-07-29 | Express News Service | The Indian Express | | Ahmedabad, July 28: COPS posted outside Gulbarg Society and Naroda-Patiya — the site of the worst massacres in the aftermath of Godhra — and yet they couldn’t save the many who were charred to death. | | | |
| New Gujarat riots panel likely | | 2004-07-07 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said it was considering setting up a new commission to probe the post-Godhra violence and the role of the state government, setting the stage for escalation in its confronation with BJP.
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| Modi govt's role may come under scanner | | 2004-07-07 | MAHENDRA VED
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| HC reviews massacre case on SC's order, grants bail | | 2004-06-29 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday released seven persons accused in the Deepada Darwaza massacre of Visnagar taluka in Mehsana where as many as 11 persons were burnt alive on February 28, 2002 during the post-Godhra communal riots. | | | |
| Investigator has 'amnesia' about S-6 fire | | 2004-06-29 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: For someone who investigated a case as crucial as the Godhra carnage of February 27, 2002, retired DySP KC Bava appeared to know very little.
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| Justice at its best | | 2004-04-14 | Editorial | The Indian Express | | The import of the historic Supreme Court directive on the Best Bakery case will be felt long after this particular case runs its course. | | | |
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| Cop’s bail plea to be heard on April 8 | | 2004-04-02 | Express News Service | The Indian Express | | A SESSIONS court in Dahod on Thursday deferred the hearing of the bail plea of head constable Narpatsinh Patel, arrested by the CBI in connection with the Bilqis Banu case, to April 8 even as a police sub inspector and 12 others arrested in connection with the case filed a bail application in the sessions court.
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| Identify riot witnesses for central protection: SC | | 2004-03-16 | PTI | The Times Of India | | The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to identify key witnesses in the nine Gujarat riot cases, trials in which have been stayed on its orders, for the purpose of making arrangements for their security by central police forces like the CRPF.
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| Gujarat riot widow Naseem vows to battle on for justice | | 2004-03-02 | - By Ambika Pandit | Asian Age | | New Delhi, March 2: On March 1, 2002, Naseem lost 26 members of her family in the Gujarat riots. Her house in Kaalol, Panchmahal district, was razed to the ground. Two years have gone by since the incident, but no one has been convicted for the murder of her family | | | |
| Another riot mother stands up to ask for justice, HC listens | | 2004-03-01 | Express News Service | The Indian Express | | Ahmedabad, March 1: After Zaheera Sheikh, Bilkis Yaqoob Rasool, it’s Madinabibi Shaikh—slowly, Gujarat riot victims are standing up to ask for justice. And the courts are stepping in.
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| Quake, cyclone funds sponsored Guj violence: UK report | | 2004-02-26 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | A UK report, released in London on Thursday, has claimed that under the cloak of humanitarian charity, massive donations from the British public were used to fund Sangh Parivar organisations. | | | |
| Witnesses, probe teams under threat: NHRC pointman | | 2004-02-25 | RITU SARIN | The Indian Express | | 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.
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| Bilkis: CBI goes to SC with Gujarat cops’ role | | 2004-02-13 | EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE | The Indian Express | | In its status report to the Supreme Court on the mass murder and rape of 14 of Bilkis Yakoob Rasool’s relatives during the Gujarat riots, the CBI has brought to the court’s notice lapses on the part of Gujarat police in investigating the matter at the preliminary stage. | | | |
| Clothes from mass grave match those in cop photos: CBI | | 2004-02-11 | RITU SARIN | The Indian Express | | When the CBI submits its 15-page status report on the mass murder and rape of 14 of Bilqis Yakoob Rasool’s relatives to the Supreme Court tomorrow, it will present pieces of a grotesque jigsaw puzzle that piece together a disturbing picture of the Gujarat police.
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| Missing, said Gujarat cops, but 2 years later CBI starts digging up human remains | | 2004-02-01 | ABHISHEK KAPOOR & RITU SARIN | The Indian Express | | In the first significant step towards getting to the truth in the rape and massacre of family members of Bilqis Yaqoob Rasool — they had been declared missing by the Gujarat police — a team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), under orders from the Supreme Court to reinvestigate the case, has dug up human remains. | | | |
| Zahira appeal to SC revives bakery case | | 2004-01-31 | CORRESPONDENT | The Telegraph | | The Best Bakery massacre case was revived today with the Supreme Court admitting an appeal against the Gujarat High Court verdict that had upheld the acquittal of all 21 accused.
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| CBI arrests 12 for Bilkis rape | | 2004-01-23 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | VADODARA: The CBI on Thursday arrested all the 12 accused named by Bilkis Banu for her alleged gangrape during the post-Godhra riots in Dahod district in March 2002.
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| Post-Godhra riot victim hopes for justice | | 2004-01-23 | NDTV Correspondent | NDTV | | Almost two years after a pregnant Bilkis Yaqoob Rasool was allegedly gang raped while fleeing rioters, there seems to be some hope for the victim of the post-Godhra riots.
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| Worst Case Scenario | | 2004-01-19 | KIRIT BHATT AND OTHERS | OUTLOOK | | 'The judgement of the trial court in Vadodara was received as a tragedy by those concerned with human rights and justice. This High Court's judgment, it is regretted, has heightened the tragedy into a farce.' | | | |
| A sad judgment | | 2004-01-14 | Editorial | The Indian Express | | On December 26, when the Gujarat High Court gave an oral judgment dismissing the state government’s appeal and prayer for a retrial in the notorious Best Bakery case, this newspaper held back from commenting editorially on it. | | | |
| US Congress wants justice for riot victims | | 2004-01-09 | LEENA MISRA | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: 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 gi
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| Best Bakery: Guj HC confirms court's acquittals | | 2003-12-26 | PTI | Outlook India | | In a setback to proponents of re-trial in the Best Bakery case, the Gujarat High Court today 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.
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| 'Zahira's statement should have been the FIR' | | 2003-12-23 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: The state government on Monday told the Gujarat High Court that despite the police recording Zahira Sheikh’s statement first in the Best Bakery case, the prosecution treated the statement of another victim Raees Khan Pathan as the FIR in the case. | | | |
| Advocate-General points out lapses in recording evidence | | 2003-12-22 | Express News Service | The Indian Express | | Ahmedabad, December 22: AS the hearing in the amended appeal of the Best Bakery case entered the third day, Advocate General S N Shelat on Monday pointed out to the Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court lapses in the recording and registering of the FIR and evidence.
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| Govt thinks it Best to blame the judge | | 2003-12-21 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times of India | | AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government submitted before the High Court on Saturday that the fast-track court judge of Vadodara and the public prosecutor in the Best Bakery case should have played an “active” role in the scenario of witnesses turning hostile one after another.
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| Modi threatens unrest if cases shifted | | 2003-12-21 | PTI | The Times Of India | | NEW DELHI : Responding to the Supreme Court's notice asking why riot cases be not transferred outside, the Gujarat government has come up with a strange answer - such transfer would jeopardise the communal harmony prevailing at present in the state.
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| US slams Gujarat for riots record | | 2003-12-20 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: A US State Department report on international religious freedom has slammed India , and particularly Gujarat , for a poor record in protecting the interests of religious minorities.
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| Bakery case: HC begins hearing against acquittal | | 2003-12-20 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times of India | | AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court on Friday began the first hearing in the government's appeal against acquittal of the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case involving the killing of 14 persons during communal riots in Vadodara.
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| Policeman Modi 'fuelled' the riots | | 2003-12-16 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: Riot victims of Gomtipur area told the Justice G T Nanavati and Justice K G Shah commission of inquiry on Tuesday that personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) not only targeted Muslim women but also supplied petrol from their official vehicles to the mob to set ablaze houses belonging to minorities.
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| Riot relief workers target of DCB: IRC | | 2003-12-16 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: On December 11, Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials claim, they swooped down on two youths Haaris Ansari (24) and Zunaid Saiyed (24) near Galaxy commercial centre in Naroda. | | | |
| Nanavati panel hears stories of rape, murder | | 2003-12-13 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: Victims of the Naroda-Patia massacre on Friday gave chilling accounts to the GT Nanavati and KG Shah Commission of how their family members were attacked, raped and killed. | | | |
| 'Gujarat pogrom being rewritten' | | 2003-12-13 | RASHMEE Z AHMED | The Times Of India | | LONDON: Gujarat remains an "ongoing genocidal project" largely funded by the saffron pound through a growing network of increasingly innocent-sounding, small, UK-based Hindutva organisations, a new report has warned the British government. | | | |
| Riot victims still blame cops | | 2003-12-12 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | AHMEDABAD: “When I went to the Vatva police station to seek protection, the inspector told me that they were understaffed and that I should fend for myself. But are we not citizens of this country and don’t we deserve to live without fear?” | | | |
| Anand riot victims still stay away from home | | 2003-12-11 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | ANAND: A large number of residents of Mogri village near here, who were driven out of their homes by mobs on March 3 last year, are still not able to return and complained to the district collector on Wednesday. | | | |
| Encounter to please politician | | 2003-12-10 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times of India. | | MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD: A police encounter in which a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militant who is supposed to have planned an attempt on the lives of LK Advani, Narendra Modi and Pravin Togadia was gunned down in the Naroda area of Ahmedabad on January 13 this year, has come back to haunt the police in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. | | | |
| When human rights custodians looked the other way | | 2003-12-10 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times of India. | | VADODARA: The police and public prosecutors are supposed to protect basic rights, including that of a free and fair trial, in case a citizen is charged with committing a crime. | | | |
| Countdown clocks are caught in time warp | | 2003-12-10 | Sunil Shejwalkar | Indian Express | | Ahmedabad, December 10: CAN this be termed as another failure that ‘‘higher-ups’’ have clocked up? Four years after countdown clocks were installed at busy traffic junctions in the city, many of them have stopped functioning. The devices were installed by private parties then but the trouble is that with no one sure of who’s responsible for maintenance, the timers continue to mark time. On the blink.
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| Hated by VHP alive, mourned in death | | 2003-11-27 | CORRESPONDENT | Telegraph | | Ahmedabad, Nov. 27: Girish Rawal, the man the VHP loved to hate, is dead.
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| Riot panel finishes Phase I of recording evidence | | 2003-11-27 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times of India. | | AHMEDABAD: The two-man judicial inquiry commission, comprising Justice (retd) G T Nanavati and Justice (retd) K Shah, probing the Godhra train burning case and the post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat, on Thursday completed the first phase of recording statements of riot victims and witnesses from the state after over a year of elaborate exercise. | | | |
| A just case for transfer | | 2003-11-24 | Editor | Indian Express | |
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| Post-Godhra riots: 15 convicted in Nadiad | | 2003-11-24 | PTI | Rediff.com | | A court in Nadiad taluka of Gujarat on Monday convicted 15 persons for the massacre of 14 Muslims during the post-Godhra communal riots in Ginjar village in Ghodasar area on the outskirts of Nadiad on March 3, 2002.
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| ‘Right of minorities to live as equals in India undermined’ | | 2003-05-29 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | Amnesty International alleges that the right of minorities to live in the country ‘‘as equals was being increasingly undermined by both state and non-state actors.’’ While referring to the Gujarat riots last year, it said that religious minorities, particularly Muslims, were ‘‘being increasingly targeted for abuse.’’ It warned that the BJP’s victory in the subsequent election in that state ‘‘on a communal platform’’ has strengthened the position of ‘‘Hindu hardliners within the party nationwide.’’ | | | |
| Gujarat riot panel judges absent at hearings | | 2003-05-29 | Rupam Jain | The Asian Age | | Justice G.T. Nanavati and Justice K.G. Shah of the inquiry commission probing the Gujarat riots were sometimes absent during officially notified hours for recording the depositions of riot victims | | | |
| NHRC seeks report on protection to Gujarat riot victims | | 2003-05-22 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | More than a year after its critical report on Gujarat violence, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday asked the state's director-general of police to give a report on protection of victims and witnesses deposing in various trial cases and the commission inquiring into last year's violence | | | |
| Jafri son attacks Nanavati riot panel | | 2003-05-20 | Our Correspondent | The Asian Age | | Ahmedabad, May 20: Justice G.T. Nanavati’s statement that the evidence collected so far did not show any lapse by the Gujarat police and state administration during the riots has sparked fierce criticism in the state. | | | |
| Godhra probe: No evidence of lapse against govt | | 2003-05-19 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES | The Times Of India | | Justice G T Nanavati, heading the two-member commission to probe the Godhra train carnage and the riots that followed last year, said on Sunday that the evidence recorded so far did not indicate any serious lapse on the part of the police or administration in controlling the communal clashes that followed the Godhra mayhem. | | | |
| Riot-hit children yearn to get back to school | | 2003-05-19 | JAHNAVI CONTRACTOR | The Times Of India | | Mehraj Jabbar Shaikh is 11 years old and recalls how a furious mob burnt down her home in Hussain Nagar in Naroda-Patia a year ago. She cannot explain how and why she remembers the incident, but is able to recollect the scene because she saw it vividly from the roof. Mehraj never went back to Naroda, not even to the school where she had once studied | | | |
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| Nanavati finds no govt lapses | | 2003-05-19 | Press Trust Of India | Indian Express | | Justice G.T. Nanavati, heading the two-member panel to probe last year’s Gujarat riots, today said the evidence recorded so far did not indicate any serious lapse on the part of the police or administration in controlling the communal clashes that followed the Godhra carnage | | | |
| Godhra accused remanded to judicial custody | | 2003-05-13 | PTI | The Times Of India | | The Pota court here on Tuesday remanded Maulvi Hussain Umarji, alleged to be the main conspirator in the Godhra train carnage, to judicial custody at Vadodara Central Jail. | | | |
| The scars of nationalism | | 2003-05-07 | Rukmini Callimachi | The Daily Herald | | In his last hour, witnesses say, Ahsan Jafri knew he would not leave his house alive and so he delivered himself to the mob. | | | |
| Mistrust sowing 'jehadi' seeds | | 2003-05-02 | SOURAV MUKHERJEE | The Times Of India | | There is something worrisome about the profile of the four 'ISI trained' youth who were arrested by the crime branch recently leading to the cracking of the Haren Pandya murder case. | | | |
| Conspiracy to repeat Gujarat episode in Rajasthan: Shabana | | 2003-05-01 | PTI | The Times of India | | Rajya Sabha MP and actress Shabana Azmi on Thursday alleged that a political conspiracy was being hatched by the Hindu fundamentalists to repeat Gujarat episode in Rajasthan by distributing trishuls (trident) despite a ban under the Arms Act | | | |
| Godhra train carnage accused dies in hospital | | 2003-04-30 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | An undertrial in the Godhra train carnage case died in the city Civil Hospital late last night due to low blood pressure, Sabarmati Central jail authorities said Ahmedabad on Wednesday. | | | |
| Transfers may hit Godhra riots probe | | 2003-04-29 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The transfer of 41 senior police officers in Gujarat, purportedly to strengthen the state's intelligence network, is expected to further delay investigations into the post-Godhra riots. | | | |
| Soft Hindutva' goes; Aneesa elected mayor | | 2003-04-17 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | Corporators of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation created history on Wednesday, electing Congress’s Aneesa Mirza mayor. Aneesa, who’s in her mid-50s, became the first Muslim woman to become the First Citizen of Ahmedabad, defeating the BJP’s Bharti Patel in the election | | | |
| Hindutva and minorities | | 2003-04-14 | Asghar Ali Engineer | PUCL Bulletin | | After the carnage in Gujarat and subsequent victory of Narendra Modi-led BJP in Gujarat has intensified threat of Hindutva forces. The Hindutva forces not only celebrated the victory in Gujarat but also declared their intention to repeat the Gujarat model in other states in coming elections. It is not so surprising after all that even the Prime Minister Vajpayee when asked about it, confirmed it. When reporters asked him would you repeat Gujarat model in other states he said, "Will Godhra be repeated"? | | | |
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| Godhra accused's bail plea comes up for hearing | | 2003-04-10 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The bail applications of the 46 accused named in the sensational Godhra train burning case came up for hearing before the designated Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) court on Wednesday. | | | |
| Been there, done that | | 2003-04-03 | Editorial | The Indian Express | | VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia was threat-making as usual when he let it slip. There are only two courses left, he announced at a press meet, now that the Supreme Court has refused to allow the government to allow the VHP to have its way in Ayodhya | | | |
| Petition seeks riot-relief details | | 2003-03-22 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | Ahmedabad, March 21: A PETITION seeking the details of disbursement of the relief package announced by the Central and State governments for the victims of the post-Godhra riots was filed in Gujarat High Court on Friday. | | | |
| At last all absconding arrested, in SESAN CARNAGE | | 2003-03-22 | FFCL | FFCL | | Through out the Gujarat, it has been seen that out of many, only few accused were arrested, with the hope that these unimportant arrested accused will be released in the trial, and the absconding will get benefit automatically
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| POTA Rethink | | 2003-03-17 | Editorial | The Times Of India | | In Gujarat, another party notable, chief minister Narendra Modi, has unleashed the full fury of POTA on more than a hundred accused in the Godhra train tragedy, but refused to invoke it in the case of any of the thousands involved in the post-Godhra carnage | | | |
| Ghettos pricey, swanky are cheap | | 2003-03-17 | ANAND SOONDAS | The Telegraph | | In any other city, the owner of a property valued at Rs 1,900 a square feet a decade ago would salivate at the price it would fetch now. Not in Ahmedabad — ask Desh Khurana. | | | |
| Gujarat’s children of a lesser God | | 2003-03-13 | ANAND SOONDAS | The Hindustan Times | | If your name has a Quereshi, Alam, Hanif, Jamal or something similar in it and you live in Gujarat, chances are that you will hear about it one way or the other. | | | |
| Top lawyers to defend Godhra case accused | | 2003-03-12 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | Some of the best legal brains in the country will soon be available to those accused in the Godhra train-burning incident and arrested under the dreaded Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (Pota). | | | |
| Naroda widows court death | | 2003-03-12 | BASANT RAWAT | The Telegraph | | For 40-year-old Noorjahan and other widows of Jawaharnagar in Naroda-Patia, their relocation to the newly-built Faizal Park Society in Vatva on the outskirts of the city has been a journey to despondency. | | | |
| Amnesty slams Gujarat over crimes against women | | 2003-03-11 | Agence France-Presse | Hindustan Times | | Human rights group Amnesty International on Saturday slammed Gujarat for inaction over widespread violence against women during last year's communal riots. | | | |
| Rights groups seek Centre's probe into Gujarat riots | | 2003-03-11 | Associated Press | Hindustan Times | | International human rights groups have demanded a Central government probe into the killings of more than 2,000 people a year ago in Gujarat, saying no convictions have been made yet. | | | |
| BJP’s historic obsessions | | 2003-03-11 | Kuldip Nayar | Indian Express | | To imagine that the Hindutva forces will be foiled by the BJP’s defeat in the Himachal Pradesh assembly election is to underestimate their strength. They have been able to catch the imagination of the middle class in most parts of the country. The extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is not liked. Yet, the spread of saffronisation by its sister organisation, the BJP, has contaminated many. The Hindu, rather than the Indian, identity has come to appeal to them as if they are trying to catch up with the ethos of Pakistan which regards Muslims and Hindus as two separate nations. | | | |
| Censor shoots down Gujarat docu film | | 2003-03-11 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | The Central Board of Film Certifications’ (CBFC) disapproval of a documentary on the Gujarat riots has the intellectuals and civil liberties organisations up in arms in Maharashtra. | | | |
| Exeunt, Followed By Modi | | 2003-03-10 | SABA NAQVI BHAUMIK | Outlookindia | | It's a clear message from Himachal Pradesh. That the whole of India is not Gujarat. That Hindutva issues have an appeal only in extraordinary circumstances. That it's not just the Congress which will have to clarify its future strategies, even the BJP will have to ponder over whether to go Hindutva or otherwise. | | | |
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| Secularism is dead: Shahi iman | | 2003-03-10 | PTI | Rediff News | | The Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari, on Sunday asked Muslims to stop supporting the "so-called secular parties", including the Congress, and form a separate national party to protect the interests of the communityAt a rally organised by the Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind in Delhi, in which many leaders of "secular parties" were seated on the dias, the Maulana said, "Secularism is dead in this country after the Gujarat riots in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. It is time we chart our own course." | | | |
| Junking Moditva | | 2003-03-10 | Editorial | Hindustan Times | | The Himachal results have shown that Narendra Modi was right. The BJP cannot win in the absence of riots. It was not for nothing, therefore, that Modi let the communal violence rage for weeks after the Godhra tragedy on February 27 last year. From the very next day, after Modi had reportedly advised the police not to be too conscious of their constitutional duty to check the disturbances, the riots continued for nearly two and a half months. Modi knew that with each passing day, his position grew stronger. Not only that, to ensure that he made full use of the Hindu anger and discontent, he sought early elections. | | | |
| Razed in Godhra riots, poet tomb yet to be rebuilt | | 2003-03-07 | Tanvir Siddiqui | Indian Express | | After the Godhra carnage last year, marauding mobs seeking anything Muslim to vent their rage on, did not spare even the grave of 17th century Urdu poet Vali Gujarati — the poet who pioneered the field of Urdu ghazals. | | | |
| A year later, debris is yet to be removed | | 2003-03-07 | Tanvir Siddiqui | Indian Express | | It wasn’t as monumental a task as that. But an year after it was vandalised in post-Godhra riots, time seems to have stood still at Malik Isan Mosque in Isanpur area of the city. Not even the debris has been removed, forget about beginning of restoration work. | | | |
| Godhra panel to record statements of riot victims | | 2003-03-06 | PTI | Times Of India | | The two-man commission, probing Godhra train carnage and subsequent riots, will record statements of people in two North Gujarat districts of Gandhinagar and Sabarkantha on March 10 and 11 respectively, official sources said here on Wednesday. | | | |
| Price of being the face of the riots | | 2003-03-06 | ANAND SOONDAS | The Telegraph | | Qutubuddin Ansari has nowhere to hide, even a year after the Godhra train attack and the subsequent riots | | | |
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| Riot-hit sceptical about depositions | | 2003-03-06 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | THOUGH it was spread over two days, the public hearing of the two-member riot commission which ended in Godhra on Tuesday, did not last even a second over six hours. A little over 20 depositions mainly pertaining to looted properties and accused at large, did make sceptics wonder about the purpose of holding the public hearing. | | | |
| Riot victims depose before commission | | 2003-03-05 | PTI | Times Of India | | The two-man riot inquiry commission headed by Justice (retired) G T Nanavati and Justice (retired) K G Shah, completed the two-day hearing of riot victims from Panchmahals and Dahod districts of Central Gujarat | | | |
| Of the people? By the people? | | 2003-03-05 | Vani Subramanian | Hindustan Times | | It’s a year since the mayhem in Gujarat. But we must let bygones be gone, we are told. We must give ‘normalcy’ a chance. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘normalcy’ as a state of “1. conforming to a standard, regular, usual, typical; 2. free from mental or emotional disorder”. | | | |
| A year after, these widows don’t want to go home | | 2003-03-05 | Express News Service | Indian Express | | FIRDOSHJAHAN Shaikh (23), an inmate of the Home for Women and Children in Juhapura, does not want to go back to Santoshben Chali outside Gulbarg Society in Asarwa. ‘‘If I go back, It will constantly remind me of my husband,’’ she says. Firdoshjahan is one of the three widows of riot victims who, more than a year after the riots, continue to stay at the widow home. | | | |
| Slice of life: 'Epic' villages spread healing touch | | 2003-03-05 | Shikha Trivedi | NDTV | | When Akbarbhai Mansuri's home and cycle shop was looted and burnt in last year's communal riots it was all in the name of Ram.So it was poetic justice that Akbarbhai and hundreds like him were given shelter in two villages in north Gujarat's Sabarkanta district - one called Ramayan and the other Mahabharat. | | | |
| Among ruins, house of screams - Slain Congress MP's wife returns to carnage site to pray | | 2003-03-05 | Anand Soondas & Basant Rawat | in.news.yahoo.com | | Ahmedabad, March 2: "Insan ne dhoonda jise, jannat woh yehi hai,
Daane jahan gir jaye, hara khet wahi hai,
Mitti me bhi sona hai, to patthar me bhi dhan hai,
Ye mera watan hai, ye mera watan hai, ye mera watan hai"
(The heaven man sought is here, It is here that a fallen grain mothers green fields, There is gold beneath the dust here, treasure beneath stone, This is my country, my country, my country)
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| Inquiry panel begins hearings in Godhra | | 2003-03-04 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | The Godhra round of hearings of the Nanavati-Shah Commission, probing the recent communal riots, evoked little response as only six persons deposed before the commission on Monday | | | |
| Godhra: Depositions put cops on hot seat | | 2003-03-04 | Rohit Bhan | Indian Express | | Like in Nadiad, the two-member riot commission almost drew a blank on the first day of its hearing in Godhra on Monday. But for six depositions from areas that witnessed minor rioting, no riot-hit from villages in Central Gujarat that saw worst massacres turned up. | | | |
| Cong demands report on Godhra carnage | | 2003-03-04 | PTI | NDTV | | The Congress in Lok Sabha today demanded that the Railway Ministry submit a report giving details about passengers of the Sabarmati Express who died in the incident. | | | |
| Living in fear in Gujarat | | 2003-03-04 | Rajeev Khanna \n | BBC | | Muslims live in fear in Ahmedabad, the commercial centre of Gujarat, and scene of some of the worst riots between Muslims and Hindus in the state last year that left more than 1,000 people dead. | | | |
| Vaghela demands CBI probe into Godhra carnage | | 2003-03-03 | PTI | The Times Of India | | Gujarat Congress president Shankersinh Vaghela on Monday demanded a CBI inquiry into the Godhra carnage, claiming state government agencies probing it did not have any "concrete evidence" to indict those arrested so far | | | |
| Inquiry panel begins hearings in Godhra | | 2003-03-03 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | The Times Of India | | The Godhra round of hearings of the Nanavati-Shah Commission, probing the recent communal riots, evoked little response as only six persons deposed before the commission on Monday. | | | |
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| Rights group criticises Gujarat Govt. | | 2003-03-03 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Exactly one year after the Godhra carnage set off riots in Gujarat, a US-based non-governmental rights group has accused the state government of manipulating the chargesheets in a way that would allow perpetrators behind the communal violence to escape prosecution | | | |
| Clinton slams politics of hate, Modi shuffles | | 2003-03-03 | Pranab Dhal Samanta | Indian Express | | It's not just the industry chambers which are concerned that the Gujarat image might hurt India’s stride towards the big league. The Godhra incident and the subsequent bloodshed has left an indelible imprint on former US President Bill Clinton | | | |
| Some Missed The Train | | 2003-03-03 | DARSHAN DESAI | Outlookindia | | The cops have found a new Godhra 'mastermind': a cleric. For the post-Godhra victims, as always, justice is blindAfter naming several people as the "prime accused" during the investigations that have gone on for a year, the police has now come up with a new culprit on the block—63-year-old Godhra cleric Maulvi Hussain Umarji. He is now touted to be the 'mastermind' behind the attack and was arrested on February 6.That he is a popular figure in Godhra is proved by the fact that he has been seen with the state governor, the prime minister as well as chief minister Narendra Modi, that too a month after the Gujarat carnage.The investigations and arrests in the post-Godhra violence have, in stark contrast, wound along in futile circles. The police figures are self-explanatory. From the 961 offences registered in Ahmedabad city, 414 were disposed of 'for want of evidence' and 508 are pending trial. Investigations are still incomplete in 39 cases. In all, 5,067 arrests were made but most of those taken into custody are out on bail. It's the same story in Naroda Patia (89 deaths) and Gulbarg Society (39 killed, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey). In Naroda Patia, eight of the 68 accused are absconding, while the rest are out on bail—free for all practical purposes. | | | |
| It could have been far worse had Pak won' | | 2003-03-03 | SOURAV MUKHERJEE | The Times Of India | | On February 28, a day prior to the India-Pakistan World Cup clash in South Africa, Habibkhan Nurubhai Chandel (40) fled his home in Dr Gandhi ki ChaliThe slum is situated right behind Gulbarg Society, where more than 39 residents were butchered on the same day, a year earlier. Chandel, who runs an auto-repair shop, was scared a Pakistan victory may have history repeating itself by flaring communal passions | | | |
| Court to hear remand petition against Umarji | | 2003-03-03 | PTI | NDTV | | The district and sessions court today fixed the hearing of a revised petition for police remand of Maulvi Hussain Umarji, the prime accused in the Sabarmati Express train carnage, for March 7. | | | |
| Gujarat riot victims face fight for justice | | 2003-03-02 | Revati Laul | NDTV | | It's been a year since the communal riots in Gujarat but the victims are still complaining that they have been denied justice. The Gujarat police have registered 4252 cases in the post Godhra riots of which charge-sheets have been prepared in about half. | | | |
| Boycott drives Panchmahal Muslims out of business | | 2003-03-02 | Shikha Trivedy | NDTV | | It's been one year since the riots in Gujarat - violence that tore apart the Hindu and Muslim communities. Even today, the wounds are deep in several parts of the state, where Hindus have not allowed Muslim families driven out of their homes to re-start their businesses. | | | |
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| Godhra keeps date, stays peaceful | | 2003-02-28 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | For a place that triggered the most tumultuous phase for Gujarat exactly a year ago, the calm and quiet of the Godhra railway station on Thursday morning was unnerving | | | |
| VHP puts up plaque for train victims | | 2003-02-28 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | On Thursday, Amdavadis were gripped by memories of the brutal Godhra killings and the communal carnage that followed. A deathly silence greeted those who visited Naroda-Patia which saw 86 of its residents hacked and burnt to death on February 28, 2002. | | | |
| Muslims pray for Godhra carnage victims | | 2003-02-28 | TIMES NEWS NETWORK | Times Of India | | In a gesture of sympathy and solidarity with the families of Godhra victims, the Muslims of Salatnagar slum area lit candles to pay homage to the 59 victims who lost their lives during the attack on Sabarmati Express on February 27 last year. | | | |
| Blix asks Iraq to come clean on missiles | | 2003-02-28 | REUTERS | Times Of India | | Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Friday he had asked Baghdad for a clarification of its plans to destroy al-Samoud 2 missiles as ordered by the United Nations. | | | |
| Not Gandhi’s Gujarat | | 2003-02-28 | Khushwant singh | Hindustan Times | | As the Gandhian scholar, Nagindas Sanghvi, put it: “Though Gandhi did belong to Gujarat, Gujarat no longer belonged to Gandhi and probably never did.” Long before the elections, Gujarat had become the political domain of the likes of L.K. Advani, Narendra Modi and Praveen Togadia. It was not for nothing that a non-Gujarati like Advani chose Gandhinagar as his electoral base and decided to launch his notorious rath yatra from Somnath, ending in the destruction of Babri masjid in Ayodhya. (It is noteworthy that the largest number of sewaks who actually destroyed the mosque were from Gujarat.) Narendra Modi fired his verbal Agni missiles at ‘Mian’ Musharraf and Togadia used abusive language to malign Sonia Gandhi and everyone else who disagreed with his point of view. Sanghvi points out that as early as 1969, Gujarat had been marked out as “a communally riot-prone zone”. | | | |
| Hindus mark Godhra attack | | 2003-02-28 | BBC | BBC | | Hardline Hindus have held ceremonies across the southern Indian state of Gujarat to mark the first anniversary of a train attack which sparked bloody communal riots | | | |
| Rights group criticises Gujarat Govt | | 2003-02-28 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Exactly one year after the Godhra carnage set off riots in Gujarat, a US-based non-governmental rights group has accused the state government of manipulating the chargesheets in a way that would allow perpetrators behind the communal violence to escape prosecution. | | | |
| Gujarat victims battle for compensation | | 2003-02-28 | Revati Laul | NDTV | | A year after the riots in Gujarat, people of both communities are trying to rebuild their lives. But for many of those who lost a family member in the violence (in many cases the main earning member of the family), it's become even more difficult with the compensation promised by the government stuck in red tape. | | | |
| Remembering Godhra: a year later | | 2003-02-28 | Express News Service | Expressindia | | PRAYER and condolence meetings were held in different parts of the city on Thursday to observe the first anniversary of the Godhra carnage in which relatives of Godhra victims and survivors participated. The S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt leading to the deaths of many Ram Sevaks, on this day, last year. | | | |
| ‘I won’t marry till Best Bakery accused are punished’ | | 2003-02-28 | Abhishek Kapoor | Expressindia | | TENS of panchnamas, dozens of visits to the police stations, scores of rounds of government offices for compensation and hundreds of narrations of her story later, Zahira Sheikh, the main witness in the Best Bakery massacre of March 1, sits resigned in her new house on the outskirts of Vadodara in Ektanagar on Ajwa Road. | | | |
| Unnerving quiet envelopes Godhra | | 2003-02-28 | RAJA BOSE | Times Of India | | For a place that triggered the most tumultuous phase for Gujarat exactly a year ago, the calm of the Godhra railway station on Thursday morning was unnerving. If madness ruled this station on February 27, 2002, it was monotony of metal wheels grinding the tracks that prevailed at Godhra in the morning | | | |
| Profile: Narendra Modi | | 2003-02-28 | Rajyasri Rao | BBC | | Mr Modi used to be known as a back-room operator but during the elections turned into a pro-Hindu firebrand and campaigned openly on a platform of Hindutva (hardline Hinduism). His critics accuse him of unabashed complicity in the religious clashes - some even claim he indirectly egged on the Hindu mobs who are believed to have led most of the attacks. | | | |
| Prayers, bandh mark Godhra carnage anniversary | | 2003-02-27 | PTI | Times Of India | | Prayers and rituals for peace and a shutdown, that evoked partial response, marked the first anniversary of the train carnage in this central Gujarat town which was the epicentre of months of communal flare-up across the state | | | |
| Prayers, bandh mark Godhra carnage anniversary | | 2003-02-27 | PTI | Times Of India | | Prayers and rituals for peace and a shutdown, that evoked partial response, marked the first anniversary of the train carnage in this central Gujarat town which was the epicentre of months of communal flare-up across the state | | | |
| It's February 27 again, Godhra is on edge | | 2003-02-27 | SACHIN SHARMA | Times Of India | | It's a day the residents of Godhra would rather forget. On the eve of the first anniversary of the Sabarmati Express carnage, that left 59 passengers dead, there is a groundswell of apprehension and fear here amidst whispers of a self-imposed bandh and 'shraddhanjali' programmes, all potential sources of trouble in this violence-scarred town. | | | |
| Amnesty questions Indian justice system over Godhra | | 2003-02-27 | Ela Dutt | Hindustan Times | | Amnesty International has questioned the credibility of the Indian justice system, saying the police investigations into the killings in Gujarat last year were biased against Muslims | | | |
| Rights group criticises Gujarat Govt | | 2003-02-27 | PTI | Hindustan Times | | Exactly one year after the Godhra carnage set off riots in Gujarat, a US-based non-governmental rights group has accused the state government of manipulating the chargesheets in a way that would allow perpetrators behind the communal violence to escape prosecution. | | | |
| Godhra victims' kin say VHP has cheated them | | 2003-02-27 | Sukrat Desai | Hindustan Times | | They watched the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) rake up hate over the death of their kin in a tragic train burning in Godhra that lit the spark of communal violence across Gujarat. | | | |
| Godhra victims want to put lives back on track | | 2003-02-27 | Palak Nandi | Express India | | ON the main door of the Panchal sisters’ house are lurid Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stickers of the burning S-6 carriage of the Sabarmati Express, saying ‘Don’t Vote for Terror’. | | | |
| Gujarat Carnage & Judicial Redressal PART 1 - A dream or reality
\n | | 2003-01-05 | Maulana Mohd. Fazlur Rahim | FFCL | | My canonic intention for calling this meeting is to pay my solemn thanks to you people who accorded with my initial concept of Judicial Redressal. Sayings, “If there is a will there is a way”. Now we are at a microscopic stage to say with trust and with documentary demonstrations that Access to Justice is conceivable even in Gujarat, may be delayed may be partial, may be diluted, but not denied. | | | |
| Gujarat Carnage & Judicial Redressal PART 2 - Fiasco of few legal issues | | 2003-01-05 | Maulana Mohd. Fazlur Rahim | FFCL | | Fiasco of few legal issues, where NGO’s did not take up the cases right from the grass roots:
We will give you one example, just to show you that how things are moving in Gujarat.
We hope that the above two cases will open our eyes that how difficult it was to prepare a case properly.
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| Gujarat Carnage & Judicial Redressal PART 3 - Anjanwa Trial | | 2003-01-05 | Maulana Mohd. Fazlur Rahim | FFCL | | Anjanwa Trial
First incident
Legal Data
Date of offence = 03-3-2002
Police Station = Santrampur
F.I.R. No. = I/48/2002
I.P.C. sections : 395, 436, 365, 295, 120 (B), B. P. Act 135
No of Deaths = 1 (Dead person was first kidnapped and there after was killed, till date the dead body is missing)
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| Gujarat Carnage & Judicial Redressal PART 4 - Trial of Major massacres | | 2003-01-05 | Maulana Mohd. Fazlur Rahim | FFCL | | Back Ground
We had already updated the board in the update dated 6th November 2002, about the scenario, and compelled FFCL to take up the responsibilities more than initially decided.
We would like to draw your attention on few more, self appointed problems because of lack of far sightedness
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| Recent Communal Violence in Gujarat, India, and the U.S. Response | | 2002-06-10 | Commissioner Felice Gaer, Hearing Chair Opening Remarks | United States Commission on International Religious Freedom | | We turn our attention this morning to India, and specifically to the recent communal violence and killings in the state of Gujarat. After the killing in the town of Godhra of 58 Hindu civilians on the Sabarmati Express (26 women, 12 children, 20 men) on February 27, 2002 by Muslims, retaliatory violence in Gujarat by Hindus against Muslims took place and has continued. It is estimated that at least 1,000 Muslims have died. | | | |
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| "We Have No Orders to Save You," | | 2002-04-02 | Human Rights Watch | www.hrw.org | | In 2002, India witnessed its worst episode of communal violence in over a decade, demonstrating the increasingly volatile consequences of a broad and government-supported Hindu nationalist agenda in the country. In February and March state-supported anti-Muslim violence in the northwestern state of Gujarat claimed at least two thousand lives. As in Gujarat, attacks against historically discriminated groups in other parts of the country, including Christians, Dalits (or so-called untouchables), and tribals, were carried out with virtual impunity. Attacks by militants continued to claim many civilian lives in the disputed region of Kashmir and in the northeast. | | | |
| State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat | | 2002-04-01 | Human Rights Watch | www.hrw.org | | To bring itself into compliance with domestic and international law, the government of India must act immediately to restore security, prevent further attacks, and end the environment of impunity in Gujarat. Those responsible for the attacks in Godhra and its violent aftermath must be prosecuted, including police and state officials complicit in the attacks. Specifically, Human Rights Watch makes the following recommendations | | | |
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