Western India

Citizens for Justice and Peace, a Mumbai-based Human rights group, on Saturday alleged that its secretary Teesta Setalvad was roughed up as she was picked up from her Mumbai home by a unit of the Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS).

A day after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit by the SIT to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested retired state DGP R B Sreekumar, whose role had been called into question by the Court, and human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, who backed the petitioner, Zakia Jafri.

The Gujarat Police on Saturday arrived at activist Teesta Setalvad home in Mumbai’s Juhu neighbourhood.

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging a clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and several others in the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide.

Ten persons in Ahmedabad were booked for unlawful assembly, two days after the June 10 protests over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s remarks against the prophet Muhammed.

At least 12 labourers were killed when a wall collapsed at a salt packaging factory in Gujarat's Morbi district on Wednesday.

The Ahmedabad Police on Saturday booked filmmaker Avinash Das for sharing a picture of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Pooja Singhal, who was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the arrest of a 36-year-old Muslim man from Surat in Gujarat in connection with the alleged forced conversion of tribals in Bharuch.

The victims of anti-Muslim violence at Khambhat in Gujarat have moved the Gujarat High Court seeking a transfer of investigation to state CID

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara on Wednesday expelled a student of fine arts for painting Hindu deities.

A leader from the local Muslim fishing community in Gujarat's Porbandar has approached the Gujarat High Court seeking permission to undergo euthanasia for himself and 600 members of his people, saying they have been facing "political persecution."

Independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and nine others were convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment by a magisterial court in Gujarat on Thursday in a five-year-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission.