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Gujarat Government Opposes Activist Teesta Setalvad's Discharge Request
The Gujarat government has opposed the discharge application filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad in a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case of the alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.
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"Surrender Immediately": Gujarat Court Denies Bail To Activist Teesta Setalvad
The Gujarat High Court rejected the bail plea of social activist Teesta Setalvad and directed her to surrender immediately in a case pertaining to the alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riots.
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"Lack Of Evidence": 22 Acquitted In Gujarat Riots Case Over 17 Killings
A court at Halol town in Gujarat's Panchmahal district has acquitted 22 people, accused of killing 17 members of a minority community including two children, for want of evidence in a case stemming from the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots.
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Gujarat Riots Convict's Daughter Gets BJP Ticket For Upcoming Polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded the daughter of a 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya massacre case convict from Naroda seat of Ahmedabad for the upcoming Assembly elections.
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Bilkis Bano Mentions "Trauma Of Past 20 Years" As Rape Convicts Released
Bilkis Bano, a survivor of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, has said the premature release of all the 11 convicts serving life sentence in a case related to her and seven family members, has shaken her faith in justice and left her numb.
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Bilkis Bano Case: Opposition Slams BJP, PM Modi Over Convicts' Release
The ruling BJP on Tuesday faced the Opposition fire over the release of 11 people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, while its government in Gujarat defended the move.
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Bilkis Bano Case: All 11 Life Imprisonment Convicts Released From Jail
All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday were released from the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said
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Teesta Setalvad Part Of Conspiracy To Frame PM In Riots Cases, Court Told
Social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a larger conspiracy to frame the then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused in the post-Godhra riots cases.
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Talking About Gujarat Riots, Amit Shah Slams Congress For Anti-Sikh Riots
There was no delay on part of the Gujarat government in requisitioning the Army to deal with post-Godhra 2002 Gujarat riots, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said.
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Gujarat Riots Case: Families Of Victims To Challenge Top Court's Bail Order
Family members of victims who were killed in Ode in Gujarat during the 2002 post-Godhra riots are disappointed by the Supreme Court order granting bail to 15 convicts in the case.
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14 Gujarat Riots Convicts Get Interim Bail, Supreme Court Orders Social Service
Fourteen people convicted of burning 23 Muslims alive during the 2002 Gujarat riots were granted interim bail today by the Supreme Court pending a decision on their request to scrap their conviction. The convicts, charged with murder and rioting, were told they could leave jail if they stayed in Madhya Pradesh and did community service.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee Wanted To Sack Narendra Modi In 2002: Yashwant Sinha
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has claimed then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was set to dismiss Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister at the time, after the 2002 post-Godhra riots, but withheld the decision as Home Minister LK Advani had threatened to resign from the Cabinet on the issue.
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"Court Has Accepted Pain I Went Through. I Am Happy": 2002 Rape Survivor Bilkis Bano
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...
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Top Court Defers Zakia Jafri’s Plea Hearing In Gujarat Riots Till Monday
The Supreme Court today deferred till November 26 hearing on the plea of Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) to Narendra Modi, who was then Gujarat Chief Minister, in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said, "The matter will take some time for hearing...
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Godhra Riots: Supreme Court Sets Aside Gujarat High Court Order On Repairs Of Shrines
The Supreme Court today set aside the Gujarat High Court order asking the state government to pay for the reconstruction and repair work of religious structures damaged during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
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Gujarat Government Opposes Activist Teesta Setalvad's Discharge Request
The Gujarat government has opposed the discharge application filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad in a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case of the alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.
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"Surrender Immediately": Gujarat Court Denies Bail To Activist Teesta Setalvad
The Gujarat High Court rejected the bail plea of social activist Teesta Setalvad and directed her to surrender immediately in a case pertaining to the alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riots.
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"Lack Of Evidence": 22 Acquitted In Gujarat Riots Case Over 17 Killings
A court at Halol town in Gujarat's Panchmahal district has acquitted 22 people, accused of killing 17 members of a minority community including two children, for want of evidence in a case stemming from the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots.
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Gujarat Riots Convict's Daughter Gets BJP Ticket For Upcoming Polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded the daughter of a 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya massacre case convict from Naroda seat of Ahmedabad for the upcoming Assembly elections.
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Bilkis Bano Mentions "Trauma Of Past 20 Years" As Rape Convicts Released
Bilkis Bano, a survivor of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, has said the premature release of all the 11 convicts serving life sentence in a case related to her and seven family members, has shaken her faith in justice and left her numb.
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Bilkis Bano Case: Opposition Slams BJP, PM Modi Over Convicts' Release
The ruling BJP on Tuesday faced the Opposition fire over the release of 11 people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, while its government in Gujarat defended the move.
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Bilkis Bano Case: All 11 Life Imprisonment Convicts Released From Jail
All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday were released from the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said
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Teesta Setalvad Part Of Conspiracy To Frame PM In Riots Cases, Court Told
Social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a larger conspiracy to frame the then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused in the post-Godhra riots cases.
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Talking About Gujarat Riots, Amit Shah Slams Congress For Anti-Sikh Riots
There was no delay on part of the Gujarat government in requisitioning the Army to deal with post-Godhra 2002 Gujarat riots, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said.
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Gujarat Riots Case: Families Of Victims To Challenge Top Court's Bail Order
Family members of victims who were killed in Ode in Gujarat during the 2002 post-Godhra riots are disappointed by the Supreme Court order granting bail to 15 convicts in the case.
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14 Gujarat Riots Convicts Get Interim Bail, Supreme Court Orders Social Service
Fourteen people convicted of burning 23 Muslims alive during the 2002 Gujarat riots were granted interim bail today by the Supreme Court pending a decision on their request to scrap their conviction. The convicts, charged with murder and rioting, were told they could leave jail if they stayed in Madhya Pradesh and did community service.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee Wanted To Sack Narendra Modi In 2002: Yashwant Sinha
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has claimed then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was set to dismiss Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister at the time, after the 2002 post-Godhra riots, but withheld the decision as Home Minister LK Advani had threatened to resign from the Cabinet on the issue.
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"Court Has Accepted Pain I Went Through. I Am Happy": 2002 Rape Survivor Bilkis Bano
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...
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Top Court Defers Zakia Jafri’s Plea Hearing In Gujarat Riots Till Monday
The Supreme Court today deferred till November 26 hearing on the plea of Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) to Narendra Modi, who was then Gujarat Chief Minister, in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said, "The matter will take some time for hearing...
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Godhra Riots: Supreme Court Sets Aside Gujarat High Court Order On Repairs Of Shrines
The Supreme Court today set aside the Gujarat High Court order asking the state government to pay for the reconstruction and repair work of religious structures damaged during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
