The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2004 police encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, along with other experts, on Sunday reconstructed the incident at the original site on the nati

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who openly supported Anna Hazare’s fast for a Jan Lokpal Bill, has been sitting over the appointment of a Lokayukta in Gujarat.

Hitting out at the Gujarat government for “hampering the probe in the Ishrat encounter case,” a division bench of Gujarat high court said told the state not to compel it to hand over the probe to a Ce

Taking a cue from Maharashtra, Gujarat on Wednesday banned a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul; Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, written by former New York Times editor Joseph Lelyveld. The book is yet to be released in this country.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has banned Josephy Lelyveld’s book on Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday. He moved a resolution in the state Assembly on Wednesday seeking a ban on the book which he said was defaming Mahatma Gandhi and hurting everyone’s sentiments.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi used the latest WikiLeaks disclosures to pat himself on the back here on Tuesday, saying, “Now even the US knows that I am incorruptible.”

Liberal democrats, human rights activists and even right-wing radicals are pondering the verdict in the post-Godhra cases and wondering whether or not it will be as severe as the Godhra verdict.

A special court on Tuesday awarded the death sentence to 11 of 31 persons convicted for the 2002 Godhra train carnage, leading to the death of 59 kar sevaks travelling in Coach S-6 of Sabarmati Express, while the remaining 20 were given life imprisonment.

Nine years after the Godhra train carnage led to the deaths of 59 kar sevaks, triggering anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in which thousands were killed, a special court here held 31 persons guilty of conspiracy over the train burning. Sixty-three others, including prime accused Maulvi Hussain Umarji, were acquitted by special judge P.R. Patel for lack of adequate evidence. The sentencing of the 31 convicts will be done on Friday.

Among the 63 people acquitted in the Godhra verdict on Monday, there is Maulvi Umarji who was arrested as the kingpin and main conspirator of the Godhra train carnage. The SIT had also dubbed him the main conspirator.