{"id":375,"date":"2004-09-23T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/09\/23\/special-investigation-in-gujarat-nea"},"modified":"2004-09-23T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T09:29:00","slug":"special-investigation-in-gujarat-nears-end-charges-framed-against-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/09\/23\/special-investigation-in-gujarat-nears-end-charges-framed-against-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Investigation in Gujarat Nears End; Charges Framed Against Best Bakery Accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a293'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Soon after ordering the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/09\/10#a290\">arrest<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of a Sub-Inspector of police for his role in the Ambica Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat pogroms of Muslims, Indian Police Service officer Neerja Gotru was asked to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=55014\">conclude<\/A> her probe<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Neerja Gotru, Ahmedabad&#x2019;s SP (Prohibition) who on the Supreme Court&#x2019;s direction was assigned investigation of three post-Godhra riot cases in the Panchmahals, has been asked to wind up her probe. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Confirming that she had been told to submit her report, she said: &#x2018;&#x2018;It is a sensitive matter. The investigations are nearly over. I have been asked to submit the probe report.&#x2019;&#x2019;<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">In other Gujarat news, charges were <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3679878.stm\">framed<\/A> in the Best Bakery retrial<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Sixteen Hindus have been charged in a court in the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai) with the murder of 12 Muslims during the Gujarat riots in 2002. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The accused have pleaded not guilty and the trial will begin on 4 October&#x2026;.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>India&#8217;s Supreme Court ordered a retrial after a Gujarat court acquitted the 16 and five others when key witnesses withdrew their evidence. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The five others accused in the case have still not been arrested. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/newsItems\/departments\/Gujarat\">Gujarat section<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of the blog contains the latest developments in cases arising out of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after ordering the arrest of a Sub-Inspector of police for his role in the Ambica Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat pogroms of Muslims, Indian Police Service officer Neerja Gotru was asked to conclude her probe: Neerja Gotru, Ahmedabad&#x2019;s SP (Prohibition) who on the Supreme Court&#x2019;s direction was assigned investigation of three post-Godhra riot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}