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The Nanavati-Shah commission, investigating the Godhra carnage and Gujarat pogroms, rejected the state government’s plea to adjourn hearings: The G.T. Nanavati and K.G. Shah Commission ruled that the proceedings could go simultaneously with the collection of additional evidence under the new notification issued by the Government last week. There was no need to postpone the […]

The Gujarat government has expanded the scope of the Nanavati panel to include an investigation into the acts of the Chief Minister and other senior state government officials, relating to the Godhra train carnage and subsequent 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims.  The Commission’s term ends in December, unless the state government extends it.  The Commission […]

Rakesh Sharma’s documentary Final Solution—documenting the right-wing politics of hate in India—is facing stiff opposition by India’s censor board.  Although Sharma has not been able to show his documentary in India publicly because the censor board has not issued him the required certificate, he has won several international awards: “What has upset the board is […]

Parliament has been in an uproar since the Railway Minister announced a new probe into the Godhra carnage that preceded the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims.  The official forensic report has finally been released to the public: The National Democratic Alliance suppressed for three months the only forensic investigation report that conclusively established that the […]

India’s railway minister has ordered a fresh probe into the Godhra train carnage that preceded the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims.  58 people, many of whom were Hindu kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed in the carnage: It is still unclear whether any inflammable material was hurled into the train from outside or whether […]

Last week, thousands of people protested in Handwara, Kashmir over the police torture of a 17-year old Kashmiri school girl: Police used batons, tear gas and fired into the air to break up protesters as they marched to the main square. Fifteen people, including nine students, were injured. The protesters say the 17-year-old girl, Hussaina […]

With yesterday’s arrest of Kamlesh Tadvi, the police have rearrested 9 of the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case, arising from the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims: All the 21 accused had earlier been acquitted by a fast track court in Vadodara in June 2003 and the Gujarat High Court had also recently upheld […]

In the process of re-investigating cases arising from the 2002 Gujarat pogroms of Muslims, as ordered by the Supreme Court in December 2003, the Gujarat police recently arrested 27 people and registered a First Information Report: Five persons were arrested on June 27 for their alleged involvement in the massacre of six persons of a […]

Recent testimony before the Nanavati and Shah commission, investigating the Godhra carnage of February 2002 in Gujarat and the ensuing pogroms against Muslims, challenges the claim of the Godhra fire resulting from a conspiracy hatched to target kar sevaks.  K.C. Bawa, former Deputy Superintendent of Police, Western Railways, Ahmedabad division, told the commission that his […]

15 accused have surrendered in a case arising out of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims: The 15 persons are mostly local BJP-VHP activists who had allegedly killed and burnt 23 persons in Delol village of Panchmahals district on March 1, 2002 during a VHP-sponsored bandh after the Godhra train carnage. The 23 people, mostly […]

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