Topic: Gujarat

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.