Topic: Gujarat
CJI says will look into plea challenging release of convicts in Bilkis Bano case
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Tuesday said he would look into the remission of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case...
Undo this harm, give me back my right to live: Bilkis Bano after release of rape convicts
“Two days ago, on August 15, the trauma of the past 20 years washed over me again. When I heard that the 11 convicted men who devastated my family and my life, and took from me my 3-year-old daughter, had walked free,” Bilkis Bano said in the statement.
Bilkis Bano gang-rape case: Convicts walk out of jail under remission policy
After spending over 15 years in jail, 11 convicts serving life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case from the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide walked out of jail on Monday as the Gujarat government has allowed their release under its remission policy.
Eyewitness accounts of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat on Ram Navami
Against the backdrop of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat’s Himmatnagar and Khambhat in April this year, a fact-finding team consisting of Neha Dabhade, Deputy Director at Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and Hozefa Ujjaini, social activist and Director of Buniyaad visited Khambhat and Himmatnagar from 25th to 27th July, 2022. This is an excerpt from their fact-finding report:
Gujarat genocide; “Plot to frame Modi hatched at behest of Ahmed Patel,” says SIT
The special investigation team (SIT) probing charges against whistleblowers activist Teesta Setalvad, retired DGP R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt told a city sessions court on Friday that the trio were allegedly part of a “larger conspiracy” for “dismissal or destabilisation” by “hook or by crook” of the then state government.
Jailed whistleblower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt arrested in Gujarat genocide “forgery” case
Jailed whistleblower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt who, as a whistleblower, exposed Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, was on Tuesday arrested by a Special Investigation Team for allegedly committing forgery and fabricating evidence in a case related to the 2002 genocide.
