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  Gulbarg Massacre 'Darkest Day,' Says Judge Sentencing 11 To Life: 10 Updates

  Calling the massacre of 69 people by a mob at the Gulbarg Society in Gujarat in 2002 the "darkest day in the history of civil society", a judge today sentenced 11 of the attackers to life in jail.

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  Gujarat Police Officer Sanjiv Bhatt, First Suspended, Now Sacked

  Gujarat Police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who took on Narendra Modi over the 2002 riots in the state, has been sacked. In a Facebook post, Mr Bhatt has said he was removed on the basis of a "sham inquiry and fabricated charges."

• 2002 riots case: Zakiya Jafri moves Gujarat High Court against clean chit to Narendra Modi

  Gujarat riots victim Zakiya Jafri, whose husband was burnt alive during the 2002 riots in the state, has filed an appeal in the Gujarat High Court against the metropolitan court's order accepting the Supreme-Court-appointed Special Investigation Team's (SIT) closure report on Narendra Modi.

• Gujarat court accepts clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 riots

  In major relief for Narendra Modi, a Gujarat court today accepted a clean chit given to him in the 2002 communal violence in the state, rejecting a petition against the chief minister filed by Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri was burnt alive during the riots. Mrs Jafri had challenged the closure report of a Supreme-Court-appointed Special I...

• Gujarat riots: Verdict on petition against Narendra Modi today

  Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri was burnt alive during the 2002 riots in Gujarat, will find out today if her case against chief minister Narendra Modi, now the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, and 59 others stands closed. Mrs Jafri has alleged that Mr Modi colluded with senior ministers, bureaucrats and the police to fan the communal viole...

• Gujarat riots: Ahmedabad court to hear Zakiya Jafri's petition against Narendra Modi, others from today

  An Ahmedabad court will today begin the hearing on the protest petition filed by Zakiya Jafri against the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team's closure report on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others for their alleged involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots.

• Gujarat riots case: Zakiya Jafri loses right to file petition against SIT's closure report

  In a setback to Gujarat riot victim Zakiya Jafri, a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad ruled today that she had lost the right to file her protest petition against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gujarat riots cases.

• Clean chit to Narendra Modi in Zakiya Jafri case: Sources; petitioners file fresh plea

  The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court says it has found no "prosecutable evidence" of Narendra Modi's alleged complicity in the 2002 communal riots, sources say. The SIT submitted its final report on the complaint of riot victim Zakiya Jafri to a Gujarat magistrate's court in sealed cover yesterday.

• Excerpts from judgement that slammed Modi govt for riots

  Today, Narendra Modi catches a major break - a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has said there is no prosecutable evidence against him for his alleged complicity in the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. But just yesterday, the Gujarat High Court slammed his government for failing to protect 500 religious buildings during the same riots.

• Clean chit to Narendra Modi in Zakiya Jafri case: Sources; petitioners file fresh plea

  The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, has submitted its final report on a complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi filed by riot victim Zakiya Jafri. Sources say the report gives Mr Modi a clean chit. The SIT, sources say, has found no "prosecutable evidence" against Mr M...

• 10 facts on today's big relief for Narendra Modi

  It's a case that has repeatedly threatened to confront Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi with whopping consequences for the riots in his state in 2002, in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. But a team that was studying Mr Modi's alleged role in the riots has allegedly concluded that he cannot be tried for complicity in those ri...

• Zakiya Jafri case: Special Investigation Team submits report; clean chit to Narendra Modi, say sources

  The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, has submitted its final report on a complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi filed by riot victim Zakiya Jafri. Sources say the report gives Mr Modi a clean chit.

• Zakiya Jafri case: Special Investigation Team submits report; clean chit to Modi?

  The Special Investigation Team (SIT) sThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme court to probe the Gujarat riots cases has submitted its final report in connection with the complaint filed against Chief Minister Narendra Modi by Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri.et up by the Supreme court to probe Gujarat riot...

• Zakia Jafri's fight: Will Narendra Modi be probed?

  The Supreme Court on Monday is likely to decide whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's role will be probed in the 2002 Gulbarg Society case. 69 people, including Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed by a rioting mob which attacked the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002, soon after the Godhra train burning.

• Gujarat riots: Special Investigating Team summons former minister Gordhan Zadafiya

  The Special Investigating Team (SIT), appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the Gujarat riots, has summoned former Home Minister Gordhan Zadafiya to appear before their team on Monday.The team is probing into 10 Gujarat riot cases and Zakiya Jafri's petition. Jafri's husband Ehsan - a former Congress MP - was burnt alive in the communal riots at ...