Articles tagged under: 2002

PM Modi praises The Sabarmati Report film on Godhra train burning

November 17, 2024
PM Modi praises The Sabarmati Report film on Godhra train burning

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today admired a movie, ‘The Sabarmati Report’. The film is based on the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002, in Gujarat, welcoming the factual depiction of the incident in which 59 people were killed. Sharing a post on X praising the movie, PM Modi said, “Well said. It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in a way common people can see it.” Well said. It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in...Read More

Halol court acquits 39 accused in post Godhra violence

April 03, 2023
Halol court acquits 39 accused in post Godhra violence

Halol: The Halol sessions court has declared 39 accused innocent in the case of Kalol communal riots that occurred following the Godhra train carnage of 2002. The case had been ongoing in the Halol sessions court for 20 years, 4 months, and 13 days. According to the police complaint filed based on the statements of affected individuals in relief camps in Kalol in Panchmahal, 38 Muslims from Delol were travelling to Kalol in a tempo to escape an attack by locals from surrounding villages on Ma...Read More

Over 300 distinguished Indians slam BBC documentary showing unrelenting prejudice toward India

January 21, 2023
Over 300 distinguished Indians slam BBC documentary showing unrelenting prejudice toward India

New Delhi: Over 300 distinguished Indians that includes retired judges, retired bureaucrats and armed forces veterans wrote an open letter slamming the BBC's latest documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling it a 'Delusions of British Imperial Resurrection?' Eminent Indians signed the letter which lambasted the BBC series which the signatories say "is based on delusional and evidently lopsided reporting" that presumes to question the very basis of the 75-year-old edifice of India's e...Read More

Supreme Court disposes off ten petitions pertaining to 2002 Gujarat riot cases

August 30, 2022
Supreme Court disposes off ten petitions pertaining to 2002 Gujarat riot cases

New Delhi: A 3-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices S Ravindra Bhat and JB Pardiwala of the Supreme Court today disposed of ten pleas in the cases of 2002 Gujarat riots. The Apex Court noted that trials in eight out of nine cases are over and the cases are at the appellate stage in higher courts. The bench noted that Advocates of the petitioners had fairly accepted the statement of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court. The cases disposed...Read More

Documents: Supreme Court judgement and FIR against Teesta, Sanjeev Bhatt, Sreekumar

June 26, 2022
Documents: Supreme Court judgement and FIR against Teesta, Sanjeev Bhatt, Sreekumar

FIR Against Teesta Setalvad, Sanjeev Bhatt and RB Sreekumar PDF Zakia Jafri Case Judgement by Supreme Court PDF Read More

Gujarat Police arrest NGO operator Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai

June 25, 2022
Gujarat Police arrest NGO operator Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai

Mumbai: Gujarat Police reached Mumbai today late in the afternoon to nab foreign funded NGO operator Teesta Setalvad according to reports. She was taken to local Santa Cruz police station and later arrested. She was being taken to Ahmedabad for questioning. According to Teesta's lawyer the arrest is in connection with an FIR filed against her and others on Saturday. Ahmedabad city Crime Branch has also booked former IPS RB Shreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt in the FIR. While Shreekumar has been ar...Read More

Amit Shah on Supreme Court verdict rejecting allegations against Modi over year 2002 riots

June 25, 2022

 Highlights: -This is not clean chit, the Supreme Court has rejected all allegations. Supreme Court Judgement has concluded that the allegations were politically motivated. -18-19 years fight, the leader of the nation continued to fight against the allegations, and the truth has come out like a shining gold today. I have seen Modiji facing these allegations and pain at very close distance. He didn't speak as the case was going on. Some person with very strong will can only do it. I c...Read More

સુપ્રિમના આજના ચુકાદાથી કોંગ્રેસ અને વિપક્ષો તથા મોદી વિરોધીઓની ચાલ ખુલ્લી પડી: મુખ્યમંત્રી

June 24, 2022
સુપ્રિમના આજના ચુકાદાથી કોંગ્રેસ અને વિપક્ષો તથા મોદી વિરોધીઓની ચાલ ખુલ્લી પડી: મુખ્યમંત્રી

ગાંધીનગરઃ રાજ્યના મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી ભુપેન્દ્રભાઈ પટેલે જણાવ્યું છે કે, નામદાર સુપ્રિમ કોર્ટે આજે એક મહત્વનો ચૂકાદો આપીને સાચકો આંચ નહીં એ વાત પૂરવાર કરી છે. દેશના અને વિશ્વના લોકપ્રિય નેતા ...Read More

Supreme Court upholds SIT clean chit to then Gujarat CM Modi and other in 2002 riots

June 24, 2022
Supreme Court upholds SIT clean chit to then Gujarat CM Modi and other in 2002 riots

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in the state and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri. A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the magistrate’s order rejecting Zakia Jafri’s protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012. The bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Mahes...Read More

Special court gives life term to Yakub Pataliya in 2002 Godhra train burning case

March 20, 2019
Special court gives life term to Yakub Pataliya in 2002 Godhra train burning case

Ahmedabad: A special court here today awarded life sentence to another accused of the incident of burning of S 6 coach of Sabarmati Express train in Godhara of central Gujarat on February 27, 2002 a day after which state wide riots started in the western state that year. 59 people returning from Ayodhya were killed in the train burning incident. Yakub Pataliya (62) was nabbed by a police from Vachala Odha locality of in his home-twon Godhara in Panchmahal district in Januar...Read More