After 26 years of delay in giving justice to victims of anti-Sikh riots which claimed more than 3,000 lives, CBI has for the first time admitted that sham investigations and farcical prosecution by Delhi Police resulted in denial of justice and helped in shielding the accused.
Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) on Wednesday again filed an application before the Godhra probe panel requesting to summon chief minister Narendra Modi for questioning in relation to his alleged role in the 2002 riots.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that the statement of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi [ Images ], recorded by the Special Investigation Team, shall not be divulged to anyone except the trial court and the public prosecutor.
Junior policemen who were posted in Naroda and Meghaninagar police stations in the city during the 2002 communal riots are being grilled by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT), probing the Godhra carnage and post-Godhra riots of Gujarat.
Finding himself on a sticky wicket after Supreme Court-appointed SIT tightened the noose around him in the 2002 riots case, former junior Gujarat home minister Gordhan Zadaphia has expressed willingness to reveal everything.
A woman testifying in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, involving senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, on Tuesday told a trial court that Kumar had visited her locality and her house prior to the incident in which her husband and son were killed.
Retired DGP RB Sreekumar has filed a sixth affidavit before the Nanavati-Mehta commission, this time listing out bureaucrats and police officers who were rewarded for toeing the official line or punished for defying it, during the post-Godhra riots.
While an NGO, Jan Sangharsh Manch, has been trying hard for over a year to persuade the Nanavati Mehta commission to summon chief minister Modi for questioning in connection with the 2002 riots, another NGO, Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP) on Thursday submitted before the probe panel that Modi and 14 others should at least file affidavits explaining their roles during violence.
In an affidavit, the investigating agency urged the Supreme Court to vacate the stay it granted on Kumar's trial in August 13 after the former MP challenged his prosecution.
In a reprieve for Sajjan Kumar, the SC on Friday stayed trial proceedings against the Congress leader facing murder and other charges in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases.