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Atal Bihari Vajpayee Wanted To Sack Narendra Modi In 2002: Yashwant Sinha

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday May 11, 2019

Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has claimed then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was set to dismiss Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister at the time, after the 2002 post-Godhra riots, but withheld the decision as Home Minister LK Advani had threatened to resign from the Cabinet on the issue.

PM Modi "Drenched In Blood": Mamata Banerjee After "Extortionist" Dig

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Tuesday May 7, 2019

Rahul Gandhi may take to a restrained "love-and-hug" response to corrosive attacks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee does not share the Congress president's style.

"Court Has Accepted Pain I Went Through. I Am Happy": 2002 Rape Survivor Bilkis Bano

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Wednesday April 24, 2019

At the end of a long and hard road to justice, Bilkis Bano - who lost her whole family and was gang-raped during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat - says she is just grateful that the country's top court has acknowledged her pain. "It is a big deal for me" said the woman, adding that her case "is about the shameful failure of the state in prote...

Bilkis Bano Case, A 2002 Gujarat Riots Tragedy: 10-Point Timeline

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Tuesday April 23, 2019

In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has directed the Gujarat government to give Rs 50 lakhs, a job, accommodation and compensation to Bilkis Bano who was gang-raped in one of the worst single cases in the 2002 Gujarat riots. During the riots, 14 members of Bilkis' family were killed, including her two-and-half-year old daughter who was snatch...

2002 Riots Victim Bilkis Bano To Get Rs 50 Lakh Compensation: Top Court

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday April 23, 2019

Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped at the age of 21 during the 2002 riots in Gujarat, will receive a compensation of Rs 50 lakh from the state government, the Supreme Court ordered today. On learning that she has no place to live and been leading a nomadic life since 2002, the court also ordered the state government to provide her with a government jo...

Probe Agency Attaches Properties Worth Rs 315 Core Of Firm In Hyderabad

Hyderabad News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday April 2, 2019

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has attached immovable and movable properties of Viceroy Hotels Ltd in Hyderabad worth Rs 315 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 in a bank fraud case.

Complete Action On Cops In Bilkis Bano Case: Court To Gujarat Government

India News | Friday March 29, 2019

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Gujarat government to complete disciplinary action against erring police officials convicted by the Bombay High Court in the sensational Bilkis Bano gang rape case during the 2002 riots.

2002 Godhra Riots: Court Gives Convict Yakub Pataliya Life Sentence

India News | ANI | Wednesday March 20, 2019

A Special SIT court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to convict Yakkub Patadiya in connection with 2002 Godhra train carnage incident.

No Train Coach Set On Fire To Enact Godhra Incident, Railways Clarifies

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday March 4, 2019

No train coach was set on fire in Vadodara to recreate the 2002 burning of Sabarmati Express at Godhra as part of a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Railway officials and crew members of a film production company said Monday.

In Nitish Katara Case, Top Court Hears Convict's Plea On Sentence

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday February 26, 2019

Jailed for 25 years for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002, Vikas Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging a Constitution Bench verdict that said courts can specify the length jail of term for murder convicts.

Malaika Arora, Karisma Kapoor And Arbaaz Khan Post Birthday Wishes For 'Partner In Crime' Amrita Arora

Entertainment | Thursday January 31, 2019

Amrita Arora's husband Shakeel Ladak also shared a loved-up post on Instagram

4 Jailed In Gujarat Riots Get Bail; Top Court Says "Conviction Debatable"

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday January 23, 2019

Four convicts in the Naroda Patiya case, which describes one of the worst massacres in the 2002 Gujarat riots, have been granted bail by the Supreme Court, which has doubted their conviction. The convicts, Umeshbhai Bharwad, Rajkumar, Harshad and Prakashbhai Rathod, are serving a 10 year jail term for arson and rioting. They were convicted by the G...

3 Gujarat Encounters Fake, Says Probe Panel; 9 Police Officials Indicted

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Saturday January 12, 2019

Three out of the 17 police encounters that took place in Gujarat from 2002 to 2006 were fake, a committee set up to investigate these cases has told the Supreme Court.

3 Gujarat Encounters Fake, Says Probe Panel; 9 Police Officials Indicted

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 12, 2019

The Justice H S Bedi committee, which investigated several cases of alleged fake encounter in Gujarat from 2002 to 2006, has recommended prosecution of police officials in three out of the 17 cases probed by it.

Want Capital Punishment For Gurmeet Ram Rahim: Son Of Killed Journalist

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday January 11, 2019

The son of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chandra Chhatrapati, who was murdered by aides of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in 2002, today demanded capital punishment for the self-styled godman.