2002 Case Verdict

Two of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case have moved the Supreme Court contending that its January 8 verdict cancelling remission of their sentence was "in teeth of" a 2002 constitution bench order.

Bilkis Bano Case Verdict: The Supreme Court today overturned the Gujarat government's decision to release the 11 convicts who raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The Supreme Court today ruled that 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots but released early for "good behaviour" must return to jail.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Monday its verdict on the petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the case of the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of 7 of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A special court in Ahmedabad is likely to pronounce its judgment on Thursday in the 2002 Naroda Gam communal riot case in which eleven persons belonging to the Muslim community were killed.

The suspect for the rape and murder of a young woman in northern France almost two decades ago was under guard in hospital Saturday after he swallowed pesticide in an apparent suicide bid following his conviction.

At the end of a long and hard road to justice, Bilkis Bano - who lost her whole family and was gang-raped during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat - says she is just grateful that the country's top court has acknowledged her pain. "It is a big deal for me" said the woman, adding that her case "is about the shameful failure of the state in prote...

Jailed for 25 years for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002, Vikas Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging a Constitution Bench verdict that said courts can specify the length jail of term for murder convicts.

Sajjan Kumar verdict: "There has been a familiar pattern of mass killings in Mumbai in 1993, in Gujarat in 2002, in Kandhamal, Odisha in 2008 and in Muzaffarnagar in UP in 2013 to name a few," the Delhi High Court said

The Gujarat High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on appeals in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case today.

The Gujarat High Court, in its judgement on the 2002 Godhra carnage, has upheld the conspiracy theory but said the crime of the 11 convicts whose death sentence was commuted to rigorous life imprisonment was neither terrorism nor an act of waging war against the state.

The Gujarat High Court has decided a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals in the case of the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, which triggered massive communal riots across the state of Gujarat in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

The Gujarat High Court is likely to today pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a Special Investigation Team court in the 2002 Godhra train coach burning case.

A petition by Congress leader Ehsan Jafri's widow in 2014 challenging the clean chit to the state's top politicians including then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and bureaucrats in a 2002 Gujarat riots case is expected to be decided by the high court today. Zakia Jafri's husband was one of the 69 people killed when a large mob attacked Gulbarg Societ...

Weeks after Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gumreet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two of his women followers, the CBI court is today hearing arguments in two murder cases against the 50-year-old self-styled godman. Ram Rahim, who is currently lodged at Rohtak's Sunaria jail, isn't physically present in the court. He is atten...

Two of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case have moved the Supreme Court contending that its January 8 verdict cancelling remission of their sentence was "in teeth of" a 2002 constitution bench order.

Bilkis Bano Case Verdict: The Supreme Court today overturned the Gujarat government's decision to release the 11 convicts who raped Bilkis Bano and killed her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The Supreme Court today ruled that 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots but released early for "good behaviour" must return to jail.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Monday its verdict on the petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the case of the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of 7 of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

A special court in Ahmedabad is likely to pronounce its judgment on Thursday in the 2002 Naroda Gam communal riot case in which eleven persons belonging to the Muslim community were killed.

The suspect for the rape and murder of a young woman in northern France almost two decades ago was under guard in hospital Saturday after he swallowed pesticide in an apparent suicide bid following his conviction.

At the end of a long and hard road to justice, Bilkis Bano - who lost her whole family and was gang-raped during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat - says she is just grateful that the country's top court has acknowledged her pain. "It is a big deal for me" said the woman, adding that her case "is about the shameful failure of the state in prote...

Jailed for 25 years for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002, Vikas Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging a Constitution Bench verdict that said courts can specify the length jail of term for murder convicts.

Sajjan Kumar verdict: "There has been a familiar pattern of mass killings in Mumbai in 1993, in Gujarat in 2002, in Kandhamal, Odisha in 2008 and in Muzaffarnagar in UP in 2013 to name a few," the Delhi High Court said

The Gujarat High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on appeals in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case today.

The Gujarat High Court, in its judgement on the 2002 Godhra carnage, has upheld the conspiracy theory but said the crime of the 11 convicts whose death sentence was commuted to rigorous life imprisonment was neither terrorism nor an act of waging war against the state.

The Gujarat High Court has decided a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals in the case of the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, which triggered massive communal riots across the state of Gujarat in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

The Gujarat High Court is likely to today pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a Special Investigation Team court in the 2002 Godhra train coach burning case.

A petition by Congress leader Ehsan Jafri's widow in 2014 challenging the clean chit to the state's top politicians including then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and bureaucrats in a 2002 Gujarat riots case is expected to be decided by the high court today. Zakia Jafri's husband was one of the 69 people killed when a large mob attacked Gulbarg Societ...

Weeks after Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gumreet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two of his women followers, the CBI court is today hearing arguments in two murder cases against the 50-year-old self-styled godman. Ram Rahim, who is currently lodged at Rohtak's Sunaria jail, isn't physically present in the court. He is atten...