Saturday, May 17, 2025

Topic: Gujarat

SC dismisses Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for bail, suspension of life sentence in custodial death case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who sought bail and suspension of his sentence in a 1990 custodial death case for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

“Human dignity, guaranteed freedoms must be protected”: APCR slams Gujarat govt over detentions, labeling citizens as “Bangladeshis”

The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), a civil rights advocacy group, has condemned a recent large-scale detention operation by Gujarat Police, who claim the detainees are illegal immigrants, saying that innocents were targeted and even denied basic rights, calling it alarming.

In Ahmedabad, thousands labelled ‘Bangladeshi illegal immigrants’, detained; activists call operation illegal

A day after Union minister Harsh Sanghavi claimed to have detained more than 1,000 “illegal” Bangladeshi immigrants following combing operations in Ahmedabad and Surat, activists on the ground said the majority of those detained are labourers from other states and are not even Bengali.

Hindutva empire: unveiling Moditva castle; reading Christophe Jaffrelot’s ‘Gujarat under Modi: laboratory of today’s India’

This book has very closely analysed Gujarat politics by considering the impact of other factors such as culture and identity, caste equations, industrialization, and more importantly its political history and its role in breeding Hindutva politics in the state, which later proved to be a laboratory of today’s India under the aegis of current Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi.

Muslim man dies in car fire in Gujarat, family accuses cow vigilantes of burning him alive

A 32-year-old Muslim man was charred to death after his car caught fire in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district, Santej area, with his family alleging that he was burned to death inside his car by cow vigilantes.

Gujarat: Muslim group files complaint after questionnaire on Uniform Civil Code circulated in govt school

The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) has filed a complaint following the controversy that erupted in Vadodara as students from various schools under the city’s Education Committee were allegedly given Uniform Civil Code (UCC) forms and instructed by principals and teachers to get them signed by their parents and submit them.