By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 20, 2023: Social activists in India say the Supreme Court granting bail to Teesta Setalvad has restored people’s faith in the country’s legal system. “With the relief to activist Teesta from the Supreme Court, our faith in the legal system is being gradually restored,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 2, 2022: The Supreme Court of India on September 2 granted interim bail to activist Teesta Setalvad, in jail since June for alleged conspiracy to “destabilize the government” after the 2002 Gujarat riots. The interim bail would operate during the pendency of Setalvad’sContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Sept 2, 2022: Gujarat Carnage (2002) was one of the major acts of anti -minority violence. It was a catastrophe which took the degree of violence, hate and ghettoization to higher degree. Much before the violence the term, “Gujarat: Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra” was well popularized.Continue Reading
Ahmedabad: The stream of mourners at the home of Ibrahim Belim has not thinned since the weekend, when a crowd of about 5,000 people attacked the main Muslim neighbourhood in the village of Vadavali in north Gujarat Mr Belim, 50, was stabbed and killed. Fourteen others, all Muslims, were injuredContinue Reading
A middle-aged man who repairs shoes on a street corner in Ahmedabad and who has slept for many years on the pavements of the city is one among the hundreds who joined the Azadi Kooch, the protest march from Ahmedabad to Una village in Gir Somnath district against the publicContinue Reading
In April 2014, a most famous, significant and controversial ‘Clean Chit’ was retained by the Supreme Court on India. The august body refused to entertain a plea questioning the Special Investigation Team probe giving ‘Clean Chit’ to the then Gujarat Chief Minister in the 2002 riots case. Describing the pleaContinue Reading
Zakia Jafri, a frail 76-year-old, has begun what may be the last legal battle to pin blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for deadly riots that shook Gujarat when he was chief minister, and claimed her husband’s life.Continue Reading