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Ishrat Jahan case: Revision petition filed
( 20-Aug-2010 )

Gandhinagar: Gopinath Pillai, the father of Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Sheikh who was killed in an alleged staged shootout, has filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court seeking a review of its order transferring the probe in the Ishrat Jahan case to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing som ....
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Centre patronising anti-Gujarat NGOs: Modi
( 15-Aug-2010 )

Rajkot: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday charged the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre with patronizing NGOs that were working against the interests of Gujarat and harassing its police. In his Independence Day address here, Modi said: "Such NGOs ....
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BJP, Congress slugfest over Sohrabuddin in Gujarat
( 14-Aug-2010 )

Gandhinagar: The Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case became the centre of a political tussle between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress in Gujarat with both holding parallel meetings in different parts of the state and attacking each other on the issue. Wh ....
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Amit Shah bail plea hearing put off till Aug 17
( 11-Aug-2010 )

Gandhinagar: The hearing on the bail application of former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah was Wednesday postponed till Aug 17 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court. On Wednesday, the hearing was re-scheduled after Shah's advocate Mitesh Amin informed the court that s ....
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Court orders probe against two Gujarat IPS officers
( 05-Apr-2010 )

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court has ordered the state criminal investigation department (CID) to probe involvement of two Indian Police Service (IPS) officers in the alleged assault on senior lawyer Yatin Oza during a protest in 1998. Also called into question by the high court is the "C& ....
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Decision not to summon Modi 'not final': Nanavati panel
( 01-Apr-2010 )

Gandhinagar: The Nanavati-Mehta commission probing the 2002 communal riots has informed the Gujarat High Court that its decision not to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others was "not final". A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhyay and Justice Akil Kureshi took the le ....
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Gujarat seeks central help to free hijacked vessels
( 31-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has written to the central government seeking its intervention to free the eight cargo vessels with over 150 Indians on board hijacked by Somalian pirates. The state cabinet spokesman and Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said here Wednesday that he had written a l ....
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One more vessel hijacked in Gulf of Aden
( 31-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: With the fate of seven Indian cargo vessels hijacked by Somalian pirates still hanging in the balance, there are reports that another cargo vessel which sailed from Dubai was also seized Tuesday. The vessel reportedly had a crew of 16, all from Kutch in Gujarat. The vessel, Dubai regis ....
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Doctor's testimony challenged in Naroda-Patiya carnage case
( 30-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: A witness of the Naroda-Patiya carnage of 2002 has challenged the testimony of the doctor who had said that reports of the womb of one of the victims, Kauser Bano, being slit open by the rioters was not true. The doctor who conducted the post mortem on the bodies of the victims had sa ....
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Modi grilling a big step forward, says SIT chief
( 29-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: A day after grilling Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the chief of Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team probing the Gujarat riots said his questioning in the Gulbarg Society case was a “very big step forward in unravelling quite a few mysteries” and was confident ....
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CJI ignores appeal, shares dais with Modi
( 29-Mar-2010 )

Ahemdabad: A day after he was questioned by a Supreme Court-appointed panel over his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, Chief Minister Narendra Modi shared the dais with Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan here at the first annual convocation of the Gujarat National Law University. The child ....
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Modi grilled for nine hours by SIT
( 28-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was grilled by a Supreme Court-appointed probe panel for over nine hours in two separate sessions that ended past midnight over his alleged complicity in not doing enough to stop the 2002 communal riots which claimed more than 1,000 lives. The chief ....
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SIT to submit report to apex court by April 30
( 28-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: R.K. Raghavan, the chief of the apex-court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that quizzed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots, has said the questioning was a "very big step forward" and the panel was likely to submit its report within the deadline ....
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Former Congress MP's widow satisfied at Modi's questioning
( 27-Mar-2010 )

Gandhinagar: Zakia Jaffri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri killed during the 2002 communal riots, Saturday expressed satisfaction at the fact that Chief Minister Narendra Modi appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). "It has taken eight long years ....
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